Urban greenspace
Links
Birmingham open spaces forum
Birmingham Open Spaces Forum is a network organisation that aims to bring together all the people in Birmingham with an interest in our open spaces.
Centre for Urban Regional Economy (CURE)
Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment (ASCCUE) project aimed to further understanding of the impacts of climate change on towns and cities, specifically human comfort, urban greenspace and the built environment. The project also looked beyond an assessment of impacts, using concepts of risk to inform the development of conurbation and neighbourhood scale adaptation strategies.
The rationale behind Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate cHange Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO) is that successful adaptation requires good impact assessment tools for appraisal of the urban and city environments under a range of climate scenarios.
Department for Communities and Local Government
The recommendations in Review of Land Use planning (2005) build on planning reforms, and aim to create planning policy and processes in England that give weight to economic benefits, are more responsive to changing circumstances (including environmental pressures), and deliver decisions in a more transparent manner. (pdf, 860 KB)
Publications:
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
Climate change and public space shows how public spaces play a major role in combating the effects of climate change – from moderating rising temperatures in our cities to preventing flooding. Climate change adaptation is increasingly important in policy making for public space.
Town and Country Planning Association
Climate change adaptation by design draws on research published as part of the Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate programme, and considers how adaptation options are influenced by geographical location and the scale of development. It also looks at the interrelated roles of the planning system, communities, other stakeholders and delivery bodies.
Urban Design
The Spring 2007 Issue 102 of Urban Design focussed on adapting to climate change, featuring articles by a number of climate change experts.
