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H. Dumke, D. Shams, A. Kalhorn, P. Hirschler:
"Climate Proofing Spatial Planning Policies in Austria - Case Studies and Findings";
Talk: REAL CORP 2021, Cities 20.50, Creating Habitats for the 3rd Millennium, Smart, Sustainable, Climate Neutral, BOKU Wien; 09-07-2021 - 09-10-2021; in: "Real Corp 2021", Wien (2021), ISBN: 978-3-9504945-0-1; 195 - 200.

The Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC, 2014), as well as the next report version (2021) emphasise
that spatial planning policies have to be empowered to combat climate change. While the 2014 version
contained a rather modest presentation of spatial planning and mobility approaches, the future version will
have a full chapter on "spatial planning and climate change". Usually, APCC reports tend to trust sources
that are highly validated and highly agreed upon by many experts. "Climate proofing" should be a process to
measure the mitigation and adaptation impact of spatial strategies and programmes, but so far there is only
poor evidence that this exists: we believe that spatial planning is powerful, but it is hard to prove this in
qualitative and/or quantitative terms and numbers.

criteria, policy, strategy, climate proofing, spatial planning

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_297191.pdf