Addressing climate change impacts is a relatively new application of the planning process (see Box 1). Climate change planning can refer to either reducing greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity (often called ”mitigation”) or adapting human and natural environments to the potential impacts of climate change. Although these two approaches are not necessarily mutually exclusive, most planning efforts focus on either emissions reduction or adaptation. This guide will focus on the tools available for adapting natural and human environments to the potential impacts of climate change. For a review of tools for mitigation planning see Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation (Condon, et al., 2009)…/…