ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on spatial planning, design, and landscape architecture at the local and regional levels. Collaborating to manage change is what planners and designers do, and climate change presents a peak challenge. The three processes of learning, convening, and inspiring benefit from analytically based visioning that planner and designers can facilitate. Planners and designers can apply the ideas when collaborating with coastal communities to reduce coastal hazards. Guidelines for engaging the community can be informed by understanding the ways people perceive risks and seek to regulate those risks. The chapter presents findings from research and practice that are most relevant to planning for coastal climate change. The challenges in creating best practices for community engagement will be amplified when planning for the long process of climate change adaptation. The chapter examines the three strategies for coastal adaptation—protect, accommodate, and move—and analyze how public engagement tasks differ when communities weigh one or more of these strategies.
