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Urban Adaptation Planning in Response to Climate Change Risk

Dowiatt, Matthew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598284306542077

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2020, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
The consensus around climate change requires us to act now. The time horizon for mitigation efforts that seek a deep decarbonization of the global economy fails to acknowledge that the impacts of climate change are being experienced in the present moment and will continue to worsen. More attention and support must be paid to adaptation efforts—the ways we can prepare for a changing climate that protects our societies in the best way possible. The impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed, both spatially and demographically, so adaptation efforts must be implemented to benefit communities that are most vulnerable to climate risks. Woodruff and Stults (2016) studied 45 US city-level climate adaptation plans and found that although the plans adequately detailed strategies to prepare urban centers for a changing climate, the plans were deficient in addressing uncertainties inherent in projecting future climate impacts. Moreover, the authors concluded, on average, plans lacked information on how the goals and strategies set forth in the plans would be implemented and monitored. The following study replicates Woodruff and Stults’ (2016) study by using the same plan quality evaluation method to determine the quality of 39 large US city plans that focus on climate adaptation in whole or in part. The following study expands Woodruff and Stults’ 2016 study by the role a city’s risk, as determined by the Urban Adaptation Assessment, has on a city’s plan quality. My results find that the 39 plans do not adequately address uncertainty or how the plans will be implemented. Results from multivariate regression models demonstrate that a city’s risk to climate change, was not correlated with plan quality.
Kerry Ard, Dr. (Advisor)
Cinnamon Carlarne, Professor (Committee Member)
Matthew Hamilton, Dr. (Committee Member)
70 p.
Climate Change; Environmental Justice; Environmental Law; Urban Planning
Climate change, adaptation, justice, equity, climate change risk, plan quality evaluation

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  • Dowiatt, M. (2020). Urban Adaptation Planning in Response to Climate Change Risk [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598284306542077

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dowiatt, Matthew. Urban Adaptation Planning in Response to Climate Change Risk. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598284306542077.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dowiatt, Matthew. "Urban Adaptation Planning in Response to Climate Change Risk." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598284306542077

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