Kenny, Melissa (2020) Planning in practice for resilience and climate change in extreme and extreme-ing urban environments. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

Resilience and climate action have evolved to become key priorities within planning policy and practice in many urban contexts, especially in relation to climate change and extreme weather; manifesting themselves within urban planning practice. In light of the increasing vulnerability to long and short-term climate related challenges, it is crucial to understand how resilience and climate action can be fully established within planning practice; at what scales should planners be involved and how can planning be integrated into other resilience related endeavours?

Like urban planning, addressing climate change in cities requires a long-term outlook. Beyond the environmental and physical nature of these challenges, there is a social aspect to the relationship between urban planning and climate change. The abilities of communities to cope with the distributional impacts of climate change in cities demands a multi-faceted approach from planners to engage with the complex interplay of resilience, climate change and a range of urban stakeholders, often with differing priorities. As resilience is growing as an urban planning concept, so too is the pressure for planners to fundamentally change the nature of their working practices to incorporate a more flexible and collaborative approach to resilience into their remit.

Based on the results of document analyses and semi-structured interviews from the case study cities of Anchorage, Alaska and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, this thesis explores the complexities of planning’s engagement with the resilience agenda, focusing particularly on the production process of specific climate-related plans, to investigate the role planning plays in the resilience building process, and the differing approaches taken by extreme and extreme-ing cities to enact their visions of resilience. The thesis contributes to the urban resilience planning narrative, placing planning within the wider resilience agenda, highlighting shortcomings such as stakeholder communication and community involvement, whilst exploring planning’s capacity to address siloed working environments and break down barriers to pursue meaningful and successfully implemented resilience solutions in increasingly vulnerable cities.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races Q Science > QC Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Climatic changes, City planning, Sustainability, Urbanization, Organizational resilience, Emergency management, Hazard mitigation
Official Date:	December 2020
Dates:	Date Event December 2020 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Computer Science
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Coaffee, Jon
Sponsors:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ; EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	ix, 266 leaves : illustrations, maps
Language:	eng

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