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12/11/2025 17:32

New Special Issue - Gender Perspectives on Climate Change: Transforming Spatial Planning

Dr. Tanja Ernst Stabsstelle Wissenschaftskommunikation
ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

    The special issue, 'Gender Perspectives on Climate Change: Transforming Spatial Planning of the ARL International Working Group 'Gender- and Climate-just Cities and Urban Regions' is now available in disP – The Planning Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 242. The articles are available via open access.

    The special issue provides insight into the topics of spatial development and transport planning across different European countries. The preliminary aim is to promote theoretical thinking, methods and tools from a gendered transformative perspective on climate issues and topics in planning sciences and practice. Climate change affects everyone, but not equally. “Gender” is one of the main factors influencing people’s vulnerability and ability to cope with climate change.
    This special edition contains four articles that address issues of gender perspective in two main areas of planning – spatial development and transport planning – as well as at various planning levels and scales. These range from strategic spatial planning and transport planning to the design of transport modes related to questions of climate change adaptation and mitigation.
    The first three articles are based on the inter- and transdisciplinary International Working Group (IAK) “Gender- and climate-just cities and urban regions” of the German Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL). Based on the expertise of its members and a literature review, the working group agreed on two concepts. The Gender Integration Continuum Framework (GIC) and the Gender Impact Assessment method (GIA) were used to improve understanding of the integration of gender dimensions in strategic government policies in Serbia and Austria, climate action plans for mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom, and data generation in the context of transport planning in Serbia, Switzerland and Sweden. The fourth article included in this special edition deals with the implementation of gender-based mobility design as a contribution to climate mitigation.

    Articles

    Introduction: Gender approaches and their relevance to climate-related aspects of strategic spatial planning and transport planning
    by Doris Damyanovic and Ulrike Sturm
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589662

    Spatial development strategies in Serbia and Austria – a comparison of climate-related goals from a critical gender perspective
    by Nataša Čolić Marković, Ulrike Sturm, Meike Spitzner and Roswitha Weichselbaumer
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589663

    Gender, mobility, and climate policy: assessing English and German climate action plans with a gender just lens
    by Barbara Warner, Jeff Turner and Brigitte Wotha
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589664

    Towards gender- and climate-just urban futures: unveiling the role of data in equitable urban transport and mobility
    by Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, Franziska Städler and Dr. Christian Dymén
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589665

    Mind the Gap! Genderspezifische Anforderungen an die Gestaltung von Verkehrsmitteln – und wie wir sie erfüllen können
    by Dr. Laura Gebhardt, Sophie Nägele und Mascha Brost
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589667

    City Tour: City of Belgrade − Changing governance, planning standards and urban form
    by Nataša Čolić Marković and Prof. Dr. Ulrike Sturm
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2025.2589660


    Contact for scientific information:

    Dr. Barbara Warner (ARL)
    barbara.warner@arl-net.de


    Original publication:

    disP - The Planning Review, Volume 61, Issue 3 (2025)


    More information:

    https://www.arl-net.de/de/projekte/gender-and-climate-just-cities-and-urban-regi... (more information on ARL International Working Group)


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    Construction / architecture, Environment / ecology, Oceanology / climate, Social studies, Traffic / transport
    transregional, national
    Scientific Publications, Transfer of Science or Research
    English


     

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