Community lessons from Climate Action Towns project

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Karen Ridgewell about year one of Scottish Climate Action Town project, delivered by Architecture and Design Scotland (https://www.ads.org.uk/)  and funded by the Scottish Government.

Karen shares lessons and tools for empowering communities to plan for their own climate friendly and fair future.

Production and editing: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Climate Action Towns report on A&DS website (includes a list of community engagement and planning tools used by the project):

https://www.ads.org.uk/resource/climate-action-towns-year-one-lessons-report

Delivering place-based approaches in Scotland event, 27^th of Sep, online: https://www.ads.org.uk/event/climate-week-2022-designing-changing-climate

Place standard tool (including place standard tool with a climate lens): https://www.ourplace.scot/About-Place-Standard

Place standard

https://www.ads.org.uk/resource/place-standard

SEPA Flood Risk Map https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmaps

2050 Climate Map https://coastal.climatecentral.org/

Heat Resilience Map https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62243280 (this was produced by 4 Earth Intelligence - they offer more detailed info but you would have to pay for the service).