An Examination of Local Climate Change Policies in the Great Plains
An Examination of Local Climate Change Policies in the Great Plains
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大平原地区气候变化政策研究
DOI：
10.1111/ropr.12103
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Rebecca J. Romsdahl
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作者：
Robert Wood;Andy Hultquist;Rebecca J. Romsdahl
As the United States struggles with national solutions to address climate change, state and local governments have become leaders in both mitigation and adaptation policy. Although a significant and growing body of research targets these policies, most studies have assumed common factors motivating both adaptation and mitigation policy adoption. There remains a need for more research on cities of all sizes, their adoption of specific local policies, the factors motivating those choices, and whether the influences for mitigation differ from those that motivate adaptation. The paper uses data from a new survey of over 200 local governments in eleven states of the Great Plains region, including measures distinguishing between mitigation and adaptation policies. These data are employed to test the relative influence of factors from three areas: the policy environment, the attitudes of governmental actors, and community atmosphere, in explaining observed variation in the adoption of climate change policies.
