“What methods can planners use to incorporate climate change science and subsequent adaptation methods into their work? This intensive panel session covers the comprehensive approach that planners and decision makers can take to incorporate climate change adaptation techniques into their community’s planning processes including: developing infrastructure capital improvements; trans-departmental and multidisciplinary decision making; assessing new and re-development for risks; and identifying vulnerabilities to climate impacts.

Leaders in the planning and civil engineering fields will discuss their real-world work regarding climate change adaption planning. APA members will see a comprehensive model that communities can adopt now. And they will learn how leaders are incorporating adaptation at the regional and large coastal city scales.

A special adaptation case study will be presented - the ambitious adaptation plans adopted by New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection, which was designed in cooperation with NASA and Columbia University.”