CLIMATE ACTION IN PLANNING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE: INFORMATION SESSION

CLIMATE ACTION
IN PLANNING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE:
               INFORMATION SESSION

INTRODUCTION

     AESOP’s Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies thematic group:

                                      Team:
              Prof. Cassidy Johnson (University College London)
           Prof. Dr. Richard Sliuzas (U. of Twente, lead of the RRMS)
 Prof. Adriana Galderisi (Associate professor, U. of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
                 Armando Caroca (University College London)

              Linked to projects in Australia, Canada, USA
    World Urban Campaign ‘Urban Thinkers Campus’ - November 2021

AIMS OF THE PROJECT

 • Urban Planning is recognised as a relevant instrument to address climate
                                  change challenges.
• However, relatively little is known about the state of planning education and
                         practice for climate related action

                   Research question:
  how European Planning Schools are addressing climate
change and climate action in their urban or spatial planning
                        courses?

METHOD
               • Desktop-based collection of online data
 • Higher education programmes delivered by Planning Schools in Europe +
              Turkey from AESOP "members directory" website

                           Included countries:
                 Albania/Austria/Belgium/Bosnia and
              Herzegovina/Bulgaria/Croatia/Cyprus/Czech
Republic/Denmark/Estonia/Finland/France/Germany/Greece/Hungary/
                     Ireland/ Italy/Kosovo/Latvia/
 Liechtenstein/Malta/Netherlands/Norway/Poland/Portugal/Romania/
 Serbia/ Slovakia/Slovenia/ Spain/Sweden/Switzerland/Turkey/United
                                Kingdom

METHOD

Survey of keywords regarding ‘climate change’ in their curricula, according to a
                             research protocol:

   Climate
   Climate change
   Climate risk
   Climate crisis
   Climate science
   Climate policy
   Global warming
   Resilience
   Adaptation
   Mitigation
   Nature-based solution
   Green infrastructure
   Ecosystem service

METHOD
                           Epicolllect5 online survey

• You can evaluate as many programmes as you wish (from different schools or
                                  countries)
          • Each programme could be assessed in less than an hour
Note: The workload will be better defined after the application process, based on
            the number of collaborators and their time availability

TIMEFRAME

 Data collection and analysis to be done in four months, from April to August
                   2021, according to the following stages:
                            • Recruitment: June
                           • Data collection: July
                        • Data analysis: July/August
                       • Writing up of report: August

We aim at collecting all the required data by the end of July
       2021, starting as soon as you are available

BENEFITS
                • Great opportunity to tackle an urgent topic
                      • Applied research experience
          • increase your professional and academic networking
   • Potential second phase: in-depth review of the assessed programmes
     • Potential data analysis and preparation of reports / publications
                       • Certificate of participation

                            Expected dissemination:
                  • Working paper and journal publication
   • Contribution to the Urban Thinkers Campus on Planning education and
  climate action as part of the World Urban Campaign (Nov 2021) co-organised
                      by the RRMS, UN-HABITAT and others
  • Contributions to the Planners for Climate Action network and the World
                      Planning Schools Conference in 2022

APPLICATION

      Interested in participating? send an expression of interest to:
                    armando.fernandez.16@ucl.ac.uk:

                          Please mention:
          • To which planning programme you are connected
                    • What languages you speak