Community planning opportunities: Building resilience to climate variability using coastal naturalisation

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Heang, Cellina
  • Birchall, S. Jeff

• Community planning is the process of solving problems, making improvements, or advancing a community in any way, shape, or form using plans, policies, and structures. This process can lead to progressive improvements in a community’s physical, social, and ecological contexts. The task of community planning is typically carried out by professional urban planners, with assistance from stakeholders, governments, and other professionals such as engineers and architects.Community planning is also known as city planning, town planning, and urban planning (Hodge and Gordon 2014). The use of the term “community” however, rather than “town” or “city,” is more accurately representative of many Canadian settlements, which include cities, towns, hamlets, suburbs, and agricultural communities, among others. Regardless of the location or size of a settlement, it is a community, hence the term community planning. The Oxford Dictionary (2018) defines opportunity as a culmination of circumstances that allow for the possibility of something. Ultimately, an opportunity is an order of events that allow for some form of growth or progress.

• Date created

  2019

• Subjects / Keywords

  • City Planning
  • Interactive Planning
  • Urban Planning
  • Town Planning
  • Democratic Decision-Making

• Type of Item

  Chapter

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-t0h0-6693

• License

  © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019