A study of American and Canadian universities found most are including climate change in the curriculum for future urban planners, but they vary widely in their approaches to preparing the future professionals for mitigating, adapting to and being resilient to climate change in their profession.
Study finds American, Canadian universities vary widely in preparing future urban planners for climate change
Elisabeth Infield of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mark Seasons of the University of Waterloo and Ward Lyles, associate professor of public affairs & administration at KU, surveyed more than 100 universities. The study was published in the journal Planning Practice & Research. A study of U.S.-based programs found those offering a full course on climate change nearly doubled from 2010 to 2023 and that such courses were found across the country in both traditionally red and blue states.
"We don't believe you should be able to come out of a planning program without addressing climate change," Lyles said."We expect that there should be a standalone course on climate change but that we also need to work on how it will be part of all realms of urban planning education."Requiring core climate change courses in planning education and practice.
Expanding perspectives beyond traditional approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate impacts to more centrally include equity and justice in transformative planning. "We found little focus on asking, 'How do you talk to young people whose relative contribution to the problem is negligible and have been constantly told the world is struggling?' How do we teach them about the issue? Despondency is rarely a good motivator," Lyles said."We're trying to train planners to do what's right and lead community conversations. That takes a lot of emotional intelligence.
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