Climate change adaptation and spatial planning: the mainstreaming concerning the regional context of Sardinia, Italy

The need to deal with and address the effects of climate change underscores the importance of identifying and implementing new spatial planning processes geared toward grafting these profiles into the definition and implementation of plan policies. With this in mind, it is particularly important to identify systems of goals and plan actions that outline and guide the integration of climate change adaptation into spatial plans, with particular reference to the local scale. In this contribution, we propose and implements a methodology, geared toward this integration, through the defining a programmatic framework for the construction of urban plans municipalities through strategic environmental assessment, as a pathway in which planning takes shape and structure, within the framework of the assessment, through a systemic strategy based on the overall and specific purposes of the planning framework, and a broad operational phase, based on systems of plan actions. Keywords: climate change adaptation, spatial policies, strategic planning, strategic environmental assessment