Adaptive Planning, Climate Change, and Disasters

Compared to traditional planning approaches, planning for adaptation to climate change must place more emphasis on high uncertainty, rapid change, and complexity to improve prospects for disaster resiliency. There is an increasingly large body of work that identifies key dimensions of high-quality planning documents and efforts, but do current plans—even good ones—allow for the adaptability and flexibility required to respond to a changing climate?

Moderator:

Darrin Punchard

Panelists:

Wendy Saunders, Earthquake Commission

Phil Berke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kylah Genade, North-West University