ABSTRACT
Part 2 explores how strategic frameworks and planning processes have been responding to the climate change challenge in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. It sets out examples from countries leading the per capita emissions league, in which the highest levels of policy development, coordination and investment might be expected. Recent developments in strategic policy, at the transnational, state and city levels, in Europe, the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and the Netherlands, highlight the tensions between climate change policies and planning for other strategic objectives. Key themes are:
the development of new paradigms for spatial planning;
the challenges of policy integration and diversity.
