The climate planner: overcoming pushback against local mitigation and adaptation plans

"The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, educates, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused at the local level, this book discusses climate basics like Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts they'll need to know in order to host climate conversations on the local level. The case studies from around the United States show how communities encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and working to reshape the built environment"--

"The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, educates, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused at the local level, this book discusses climate basics like Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts they'll need to know in order to host climate conversations on the local level. The case studies from around the United States show how communities encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and working to reshape the built environment"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Topics Covered -- Notes -- Part 1 Why Are We Doing This?: Local Planning and the Call -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Why Are We Doing This? Local Planning and the Call -- That's Not How Things Work in My Town -- Leading a Discussion On Climate -- Chapter 1 Climate Planning Objection 1: "Climate Change Is a Lie. It Can't Be Proven. The Climate Change Myth Is a Political Maneuver." -- Science Has Yet to Be Fooled -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and World Temperatures -- Change Takes Time -- Climate Change Denial and Agnosticism -- Notes From the Field -- Engaging Southeast Florida in Climate Planning -- NOAA and Global Sea Level Rise -- Beginning a Regional Planning Effort -- Summits Two and Three -- The Seven50 Scenario Modeler -- The Planning Team: Often Its Own Worst Enemy -- The Coalition Dissolves -- Agenda 21 -- The Final Summit -- A Seven50 Postscript -- Notes From the Field -- Resilient, Multi-Modal Improvements for Florida State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale -- Coastal Armoring -- Reconstructing State Roads With Shoreline Armoring -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Climate Planning Objection 2: "We Don't Have the Will. We Don't Have the Money." -- Paying for Resilience -- Investing in Resilience and Requiring Resilience -- Investing in Resilience in Montgomery, Alabama -- Requiring Resilience in Las Cruces, New Mexico -- Requiring Resilience in Somerville, Massachusetts -- Is There Anything More We Can Do? -- We'll Adapt When There's No Other Option -- Why Should the U.S. Lead? -- Local Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs) -- It's the People, Not the Plan, Which Changes the World -- Resilience Grants -- Notes From the Field -- Preaching Common Sense, Humility, and Politeness on Climate Issues in San Francisco.