LUP through cities master plan for example in many countries is statutory based, fixed over longer terms (20 or more years), with many approval process even for minor amendments in any plan. Climate change impacts on the other hand are now real especially in coastal cities of Asia, Africa and even South America. my interest is to understand what exactly has been done in your country or the country you are aware of to make sure that long term land use plans are adequately aligned in favour of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
The answer is "yes", because land use planning for climate change is no different than land use planning for disaster risk reduction which must be flexible and contextual:
(a) https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-02-2017-0043
(b) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-015-0046-5
(c) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-015-0038-5
(d) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0
(e) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Disaster-Risk-Reduction-Including-Climate-Change/Kelman-Mercer-Gaillard/p/book/9781138924567
(f) http://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v4i4.729
Thank you Ilan, the literature you provided will beef-up my review.
I now want case specific literature on where exactly in the world has LUP reflected climate change mitigation or adaptation strategies and the benefits thereof. This is important because in additional to a strong theory, one need strong evidence of practices on the ground. This might include best/worst cases as well.
Yes practices differ but where and how? This is my basic question
Overall, I would say "Yes". However, Land use planning has so many other implications that are social and economic (besides the typical environmental implications that immediately come to mind when thinking about LUP). It depends also on the type of investigation but perhaps the LUP as part of the 17 sustainable development goals is/can be a a valuable metric in mitigating global climate change.
It seem spatial planning has some prospects in mitigating climate but we are lacking facts and figures. Either because of limited researches or limited time to allow critical examination of the matter in LUP practices
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