There are gaps in the existing climate change adaptation literature concerning the design of spatial planning instruments and the relationship between policy instruments and the sociopolitical barriers to adaptation reform. To help address this gap, this article presents a typology of spatial planning instruments for adaptation and analyses the pattern of instrument choice in Australian planning processes in order to shed light on contextual factors that can impede adaptation. The analysis highlights how policy design can amplify the barriers to adaptation by arranging policy actors in ways inimical to reform and stripping decision makers of the instruments necessary to make and sustain desired policy changes.
History
Publication title
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume
58
Issue
8
Pagination
1432-1453
ISSN
0964-0568
Department/School
Faculty of Law
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Rights statement
Copyright 2014 University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified