Beschreibung:
<jats:sec><jats:label /><jats:p>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.</jats:p></jats:sec>