Analyzing the Relationship between Environmental Planning Policies and Climate Change: Multinomial Logit Regression Model Evaluation of Tarrant County, Texas
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53447#.VMWw-CzQrzE Author(s) Kiranmayi Raparthi * Affiliation(s) School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA . ABSTRACT Climate change is regarded as one of the greatest challenge human society is facing in this century. The debate on climate change raises the issue of the need to mainstream climate change mitigation in environmental planning. However this has remained research rhetoric and is not transformed to practice. One reason for this gap between research and environmental planning practice might be lack of empirical evidences that analyzes if a relationship between environmental planning policies and climate change mitigation exists. Most planners consent that cities have an ability to mitigate climate change by integrating and implementing environmental policies. However, lack of statis...