Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning
Australian communities are increasingly threatened by climate change. Land use planning as a system that anticipates and manages local spatial change is widely recognised as a climate adaptation solution. Climate problems will affect whole communities so effective adaptive responses will require pla...
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| description | Australian communities are increasingly threatened by climate change. Land use planning as a system that anticipates and manages local spatial change is widely recognised as a climate adaptation solution. Climate problems will affect whole communities so effective adaptive responses will require planning that is both spatial and social in scope.The planning system of NSW is used as a case study to establish how the planning system can guide local community adaptation. The problem of increasing local adaptive capacity draws in theories of planning, organisational learning, systems, adaptation, and adaptive and anticipatory governance. The emergent conceptual solution is a planning institution that enables recursive and adaptive learning. Transformative change is required to make the NSW planning system adaptive. Transformative changes would restructure planning as a self-learning system at all administrative levels which raises practical administration and maladaptation issues. Rather than focus adaptive change on land use planning, an optimal solution may be that NSW as an administrative and institutional system becomes an adaptation pathway. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e55babedbdf4453d9b7448a91cd99d3d2025-08-20T03:26:39ZengElsevierScience Talks2772-56932025-06-011410046210.1016/j.sctalk.2025.100462Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planningIan McNicol0Griffith University, AustraliaAustralian communities are increasingly threatened by climate change. Land use planning as a system that anticipates and manages local spatial change is widely recognised as a climate adaptation solution. Climate problems will affect whole communities so effective adaptive responses will require planning that is both spatial and social in scope.The planning system of NSW is used as a case study to establish how the planning system can guide local community adaptation. The problem of increasing local adaptive capacity draws in theories of planning, organisational learning, systems, adaptation, and adaptive and anticipatory governance. The emergent conceptual solution is a planning institution that enables recursive and adaptive learning. Transformative change is required to make the NSW planning system adaptive. Transformative changes would restructure planning as a self-learning system at all administrative levels which raises practical administration and maladaptation issues. Rather than focus adaptive change on land use planning, an optimal solution may be that NSW as an administrative and institutional system becomes an adaptation pathway.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772569325000441Land use planningSpatial planning systemsCommunity adaptationClimate adaptation pathwaysAdaptive governanceNew South Wales Australia |
| spellingShingle | Ian McNicol Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning Science Talks Land use planning Spatial planning systems Community adaptation Climate adaptation pathways Adaptive governance New South Wales Australia |
| title | Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning |
| title_full | Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning |
| title_fullStr | Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning |
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| title_short | Improving the adaptive capacity of NSW land use planning |
| title_sort | improving the adaptive capacity of nsw land use planning |
| topic | Land use planning Spatial planning systems Community adaptation Climate adaptation pathways Adaptive governance New South Wales Australia |
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