摘要：Adaptation is increasingly being viewed as a necessary response in respect of climate change. Though the subject of significant scholarly and professional attention, adaptation still continues to lag behind mitigation in the climate change. However, this situation looks likely to change in the coming years due to increasing scientific acceptance that certain climate change effects are now inevitable.The purpose of this research is to illustrate, consider and demonstrate how urban planning can use some of their professional tools to develop adaptation strategies and interventions in urban systems. These tools include plan-making, development management, urban design and place-making. Urban systems contribute disproportionately to climate change and will also likely suffer considerably from the resulting effects. Moreover, the majority of the world’s population is now urbanized, suggesting that adaptation will be crucial in order to develop urban systems that are resilient to climate change effects. Informed by a reflexive, qualitative method, this paper offers an informed understanding and illustration of adaptation as a climate change response, its use in urban systems and some of the roles and strategies that planning may take in developing and implementing urban adaptation. It concludes that urban planning regimes have key roles in adapting urban systems to many climate change effects
关键词：Climate change; Urban planning; Urban systems and Adaptation
