Urban and Regional Strategies for Climate Change
Theme leader: Maria Rosario Partidario, Professor, IST Portugal
Presentations:
Computer Says “Not Sure”: The Role of Path Dependencies and Increasing Returns in Planning for Climate Change
Presenter: Patrick Driscoll, Aalborg University
Brief description: Relationship between regional climate change models, path dependencies and increasing returns, with a brief exploration of how these issues play out in the case of Copenhagen and Portland, Oregon climate change strategy. One of the primary conclusions is that path dependencies in the regional energy and transport systems may have a significant influence on both the future GHG emissions profiles and the possibilities for adaptive planning measures that will need to be accounted for in current and future regional and municipal plans.
Integration of climate change in urban and regional planning: Experiences from Danish SEA
Presenters: Sanne Vammen Larsen and Lone Kørnøv, Aalborg University
Brief description: Based on the analysis of 127 Danish SEA reports on municipal and local spatial plans from 2004 -2009, and six interviews with representatives from Danish municipalities, it is reviewed to what extent climate change and specifically mitigation and adaptation are actually integrated in SEA in the Danish context, and what the motivation and challenges are for such a practice. The analysis shows that climate change is integrated in approx 50% of the SEAs reports and that the number of reports where climate change is integrated has increased over time.