Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not surprisingly, little research makes use of a planning lens to explore the challenge of utilizing policy measures to address social vulnerability – particularly in relation to climate change. Through a scholarly narrative review of interdisciplinary sources an in-depth understanding of climate change vulnerability is gained and its importance in successful adaptation planning demonstrated. The urgency and complexity of climate change requires overcoming socio-political barriers within the existing adaptation paradigm, balancing technocratic methods with a collaborative approach focusing on the social, economic and ethical components of vulnerability to climate change.

规划政策可以在有效、公平的气候变化适应方面发挥关键作用；然而，它的能力仍然受到依赖于硬措施的技术官僚方法的削弱，忽视了为成功的适应政策解决社会脆弱性来源的重要研究。毫不奇怪，很少有研究利用规划视角来探索利用政策措施解决社会脆弱性的挑战——尤其是与气候变化有关的脆弱性。通过对跨学科来源的学术叙述性审查，深入了解气候变化脆弱性，并证明其在成功适应规划中的重要性。气候变化的紧迫性和复杂性要求克服现有适应范式内的社会政治障碍，