ADAPTING TO ADAPT. Urban regulations in the construction of transitions towards a new paradigm

Abstract

Traditional planning and management strategies have proven to be insufficient to respond to the problems of climate change. A change in the way of acting based on a change in the way of understanding the problems is necessary. Three systems of action are recognized where our discipline can contribute to the construction of transitions: professional practice, academic production and urban governance (institutions, rules, interrelation of actors). In this context, the regulatory normative of urban and building scale of Uruguay is analyzed. To build evidence, a systematic review of national and subnational regulations (390 documents) is carried out, characterizing the state of the situation and the presence of emerging issues as "signs" in the process of transition to a new paradigm. This first systematization builds a baseline that allows evaluating the future development of the normative body.

Keywords: adaptation to climate change, governance, urban and building regulations.