The changing world is a key challenge for spatial planning and research. In particular, the given interlinkages between climate change and demographic change require a transformative adaptation of urban structures and systems. The impacts of climate change are considerably determined by the concurrence of growing and declining urban structures and populations, the ageing and heterogenisation of the society and a changing landscape on different scales. Thus the established meaning of § 1 Abs. 6 Nr. 1 Federal Building Code ("the general requirements to healthy living and working conditions"), which aims at the avoidance of health-endangering factors by spatial planning, attains a new meaning. Increasingly, however, questions are also being raised about the quality of life in urban and rural areas. This goes hand in hand with a comprehensive understanding of health, as laid down in the Ottawa Charter of the WHO (1986), which includes aspects of health promotion.

Thus, an integrated view on these challenges calls for a collaboration of actors from the disciplines of urban and regional planning / research with those from the public health service and health sciences. This makes, on the one hand, an evidence-based planning of urban spaces possible and fosters on the other hand the establishment of new cooperation modes and their instrumental implementation in political decision making and administrative acting within the context of transformation processes. At this, statutory instruments of spatial planning as well as new non-statutoryapproaches play an essential role. They provide a crucial contribution for the development of life quality and social and environmental justice of the living conditions of the population.

The track is intended to provide an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exchange between actors from science and practice and to present current findings for discussion. Contributions that address climate adaptation or health and spatial planning are welcomed. Desirable are integrated views on the interlinkages between climate change and health issues.

Chair: Stefan Greiving, Sabine Baumgart