Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into planning and development: A case study in Northern Ireland

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2022
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Burns, Cathy
Flood, Stephen
O'Dwyer, Barry
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Palgrave Macmillan
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10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_7
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This study outlines the adaptation planning journey undertaken by Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) in Northern Ireland and reflects how the prevailing policy context and level of organisational adaptive capacity create the conditions for mainstreaming climate adaptation into planning and development. This chapter explores the potential of local government in Northern Ireland to integrate local authority policy drivers such as disaster risk reduction (DRR), emergency planning, risk and assurance, and community resilience. The ability to communicate risks and solutions was identified as an important consideration when undertaking adaptation planning, particularly when discussing the adaptation planning process and securing input or support from colleagues. Moreover, a significant amount of engagement was required with local government agencies to increase understanding of the relevance of climate change and DRR. Embedding DRR and climate change adaptation (CCA) within local authority policy and planning can enable a greater understanding of specific risks to local governments and act as a catalyst for further action.
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Local government planning , Community resilience , Organisational adaptive capacity , Policy integration
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Burns, C., Flood, S. and O'Dwyer, B. (2022) 'Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into planning and development: A case study in Northern Ireland', in in Flood, S., Jerez Columbié, Y., Le Tissier, M. and O'Dwyer, B. (eds.) Creating Resilient Futures - Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-147. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_7
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-80791-7_7
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/12162
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© 2022, the Authors. Open Access. This book chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made.