However, it is rather difficult for the planners to attempt to design without engaging the urban climate scientists.
Although the appalling environmental impact of China's growth is increasingly apparent in its polluted air and waters, it will be difficult for state planners to kick the addiction to rapid growth.
His agency, he said, was trying to move promptly through rulemaking and "provide the rational basis for utility planning, instead of this continually rolling ball of uncertainty, which allows people to speculate, and creates a situation where it's very difficult for competent utility planners to do the work they need to do".
That makes it more difficult for California energy planners to predict what may happen in the long term.
Instead of concentrating many of the sites in a single Olympic park outside the city, which often makes them difficult for people to use, planners say they have tried to select disparate locations in the city's five boroughs, hoping to increase the chances that they will be embraced by their neighborhoods after the Games are gone.
These product maps lead to an uncomfortable conclusion about economic development: they hint at how difficult and complex it may be for government planners to kick-start a new industry -- while showing that there are new industries that will struggle to get started without help.
It is foolish for civil planners to allow the building of inadequate structures in such areas.
As predictive tools for water resources, water quality, natural hazard mitigation and water availability assessment are generally data-driven, the lack of adequate hydrometric records poses difficult problems for planners, engineers, managers, and stake-holders alike.
The balance sheet is difficult for laypersons and non-medical planners to understand, but even experts in the fields complained about the complexities of choice: four sets of evidence for nine interventions had to be balanced at the same time.
