Are we planning effectively for climate change? An evaluation of official community plans in British Columbia
Mounting evidence of global climate change encourages planning responses that seek to mitigate change and to adapt to changes considered to be inevitable. The province of British Columbia recently mandated that municipal official community plans (OCPs) contain targets and policies for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The authors use content analysis to evaluate mitigation and adaptation content in 39 OCPs, and find that 25 of the OCPs explicitly address climate change, and that the OCPs are stronger with respect to goals and policies than to fact base and implementation
provisions. The paper concludes with recommendations for strengthening municipal climate change planning.
Keywords: adaptation; climate change; mandates; mitigation; plan quality
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Publication date: 01 April 2014
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