Social Impacts and Implications of Climate Change for Transport, Land Use, and Planning in Australian Cities

This article reviews what is known about the social impacts and implications of climate change for transport, land use, and planning in Australian cities, discusses key issues, and offers conclusions about future policy development (noting that several overlapping issues, such as water resources, are covered elsewhere in this journal). Central to this article is an inclusive view of the socio-economic consequences of climate change, namely that the total impacts of climate change are wider than the direct effects of a warming global climate (and associated changes, such as rising sea levels). Using research for comprehensively evaluating the socio-economic consequences of climate change involves assessing the (positive and negative) impacts of climate change, adaptations to climate change (both autonomous and policy-driven), and the efforts at mitigating emissions; collectively these produce the direct 'social consequences of climate change'.