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Climate Change as a Policy Development and Public Management Challenge: An Introduction to Key Themes
Author(s) -
Gerber Brian J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12059
Subject(s) - climate change , political science , elite , psychological resilience , global warming , function (biology) , resilience (materials science) , public policy , environmental resource management , scale (ratio) , environmental planning , geography , economics , ecology , politics , psychology , law , biology , physics , cartography , evolutionary biology , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
Climate science has established the underlying pattern of a warming climate on a global scale—along with the implications of such changes. The reality of global warming thus leads inevitably to questions of public policy: how can governments, both across the international system and within individual nation states, regulate activities to help mitigate those factors contributing to global warming? And how can they design systems to become more adaptable to the effects of a changing climate in order to enhance community and national resilience? This symposium issue addresses policy choices and public management efforts by considering the nature of mass and elite opinion on what climate change means and how to address it, how policy innovations are developed, including the utilization of research evidence, and how operational management systems function in practice, particularly at a subnational level.