ABSTRACT
Spatial planning has an important role to play in responding to the urgent need to address both the causes of climate change and the impacts of unavoidable climate change. To do so requires a reframing of spatial planning interventions, with a renewed and revised interpretation of sustainable development, which has more regard to longer time horizons, pays more attention to the relationship between new and existing built form, and has a closer focus on integrating the built envir on ment with natural processes such as the carbon and water cycles, and ecosystems.
