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Assessment Methods: Planning Practices Countering Climate Change

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Climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge evaluation-planning methods. There appears to be a need for a multifaceted evaluation framework to aid in assessing the potential contribution of urban plans to climate change practices. The aim of this paper is to propose a new conceptual framework for evaluating urban plans from the perspective of coping with climate change: Countering Climate Change Evaluation Method. The evaluation framework is based on theorizing of practices, which was presented in the previous chapter.

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Jabareen, Y. (2015). Assessment Methods: Planning Practices Countering Climate Change. In: The Risk City. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9768-9_4

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