Presentation
Climate Change: Hope, Despair, and Planning
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
12-5-2012
Subjects
- Climatic changes -- Study and teaching,
- City planning -- Effect of climatic changes on,
- Sustainable development
Disciplines
Abstract
The purpose for this paper: How can I engage students in thinking about climate change as a planning issue without glossing over or disregarding their growing skepticism about their own futures? This paper is not so much about how I teach, or how I could teach. Rather, it is more conceptual with respect to planning itself. More to the point: how does planning fit into this emerging, and dark, worldview? Planning, after all, is a discipline steeped in hope, and climate change seems to be bringing forth, at least for some, a palpable wave of despair. This is a direct challenge both the to idealism (if not happiness) of my students and to the principles underlying the practice of planning itself.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8723
Citation Information
Ethan Seltzer. "Climate Change: Hope, Despair, and Planning" (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ethan_seltzer/6/
Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2012