2024 Urban Planning Conference
Annual Urban Planning Conference at
Alabama A&M University
Climate Change Planning and the Questions of Environmental Justice
Friday, February 23, 2024
Call for abstracts:
As we look into the future, global challenges to justice present opportunities for innovative, informed, and reflective planning practices. How communities respond to the climate crisis is increasingly in search of implementable strategies and economic remedy. Because of the reality of impacts affecting lives, health, housing and property, climate change is no longer an esoteric discussion. It is also clear that the current pattern of attention and how questions are framed shows socio-economic inequity and spatial disparity. Poor people and poor people of color are not only losing lives and assets, they are facing multiple occurrences of this loss due to issues planning is charged to address.
In the 2024 Urban Planning Annual Conference at Alabama A & M University, we invite presentations of research, practice, and policy development that address the challenges of environmental justice in the delivery of climate change-related solutions. How does planning change its tools, strategies, and foci to build a broader, more inclusive, and affordable system of remedy?
Abstracts focused on climate change-related issues, ecology, climate justice, and vulnerabilities from all planning practice and research areas are welcome. Substantive and methodological topics are entirely open. Attention to urban and rural communities of various sizes and scales is welcomed. A wide range of topics is desired., for example, including:
- New technology, big data and informatics
- Housing and homelessness
- Health disparity
- Economic and community development
- Food insecurity
- Transportation and land use
- Politics of planning
This conference is an opportunity to tap into knowledge that can better inform future planning.
Please limit abstracts to between 300-500 words and include relevant contact information for primary authors/presenters. Direct any questions to Dr. Deden Rukmana, Department of Community and Regional Planning at Alabama A&M University. Abstracts are due by February 9, 2024 to deden.rukmana@aamu.edu in .doc or .pdf format.
