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Planning across borders in a climate of change /  Wendy Steele, Tooran Alizadeh, Leila Eslami-Andargoli &#38; Silvia Serrao-Neumann, eds. Routledge, May 2014, 234 p.http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704397/Presentation (© Routledge) :The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice. This offers potential for transformative change through the processes of re-bordering and re-orienting established boundary demarcations in ways that support and promote sustainability in a climate of change.This book draws on a range of diverse case studies from Australasia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and offers the application of border theory, concepts and principles to planning as a critical lens. It applies this lens to a range of international case studies in key areas such as climate change adaptation, food security, spatial planning, critical infrastructure and urban ecology...