Study for a Master of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Canberra

Climate Change Adaptation in the Australian Capital Region: Emerging issues in the context of regional planning

Increasingly, the scale of the challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation is directly linked to land use-planning decisions, which by their nature demand a regional approach. It is a challenge that state and local governments are increasingly required to meet, as long as we continue to more generally see a lack of national government leadership on climate policy.