The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation: Planning Systems, Policies and Instruments (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia. This book identifies how, in each case, spatial planning instruments can influence the protection of green spaces, and whether - and if so how - they are being adapted in response to actual and expected effects from climate change.In doing so, the institutional frameworks of each country analysed are first presented.This provides the basis for discussing the key problems occurring at the state (and city) level in responding to the challenges of climate change adaptation, especially for the protection of green spaces.In the individual chapters, the issues identified above will be analysed from the perspective of diverse countries: Australia, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, Brazil and Poland.The contributors in this edited collection will present