Abstract
Contemporary spatial planning struggles with many difficulties resulting from, inter alia, ongoing climate change. Ongoing environmental transformations pose many challenges for spatial policy across the entire globe. The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of climate change on urban spaces in Poland and to answer the question of whether planning practice promotes adaptation to climate change and, if so, to what extent. This paper uses a descriptive and comparative research methodology to interpret planning provisions used in selected local spatial development plans in terms of the arrangements that aim to prevent the negative consequences of climate change. The subject of the analysis is the content of general and detailed plans defined in the texts of the examined resolutions of applicable local plans in the Lower Silesia and Greater Poland voivodeships. This study assessed the validity of applying specific planning provisions. This interpretation was determined on the basis of a review of the current provisions in the Polish law, literature on the subject, as well as the author’s own professional experience in the field of spatial planning. The quantitative and qualitative research results are summarized in a table and also examined and described in detail. Examples of planning records that were used in the analysis of local plans are cited and compared. Finally, the adaptation challenges posed to spatial planning in Poland at the local level (communal) based on the obtained quantitative data on the issues were studied.
Highlights
Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga and Scientific studies carried out over many years indicate that both the social and economic development of many countries is threatened by the effects of climate change.Taking into account the scientific data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC), which has already published five reports since 1990, it should be pointed out that the consequences of not heeding to environmental changes are increasingly destabilizing the spaces in which people live
Among the significant sources of pro-ecological knowledge in Europe, two organizations act as important information exchange panels, both among decision-making bodies and society: the European Climate Adaptation Platform (ECAP) and the European Environment Agency (EEA)
It is not easy to analyse the planning provisions, which are applied in local spatial development plans, for their ability to care for environmental protection with emphasis on the prevention of possible effects of climate change for at least two reasons
Summary
Change (IPCC), which has already published five reports since 1990, it should be pointed out that the consequences of not heeding to environmental changes are increasingly destabilizing the spaces in which people live The awareness of these consequences is crucial for making decisions on certain adaptation activities that could possibly apply on a large scale. Among the significant sources of pro-ecological knowledge in Europe, two organizations act as important information exchange panels, both among decision-making bodies and society: the European Climate Adaptation Platform (ECAP) and the European Environment Agency (EEA). They represent the development and agreement adaptation policies on climate change at the European Union level. Two reports by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and International Panel on Climate
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