Abstract
Regional-scale climate and drought planning can increase resilience and adaptation outcomes in regions. Yet the under-specification of plans’ actions represents a barrier to implementation and impact. This paper presents a novel “Specificity of Actions” (SoA) analysis; a flexible evaluative instrument for appraising actions in regional planning documents. Prototyped on 15 Australian drought resilience plans, the SoA analysis represents a useful complement to existing plan quality evaluation methods. It provides: (1) a micro-level appraisal of plans’ actions; (2) a means of identifying wider trends across plans such as the “boiler-plating” of identical actions; and (3) a capacity-building tool and means of co-learning between plan evaluators and plan authors. Finally, we reconcile the focused nature of specificity with the uncertainty and flexibility inherent to resilience planning, pointing to the scalability of the SoA method to different planning typologies such as mitigation, adaptation and resilience planning.
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