Facilitating Climate Change Action Across Planning Systems

Abstract

In-depth interviews with Australian urban planners identified barriers to and facilitators of climate change action across Janin Rivolin’s model of planning systems, categorizing them against Healey’s theory of transformations in urban governance. Insights from everyday planning practice reveal four factors necessary to transform urban planning systems for effective climate change action: (1) planning education institutions and professional associations must appropriately update professional capacity requirements and opportunities; (2) professional capacity and culture change needs to be enabled; (3) material resources must be facilitated; to (4) design and implement effective urban planning policy instruments for climate change action.