As climate impacts intensify, local governments across the United States are developing ad-hoc policies and plans to increase their resilience to climate hazards across all sectors, but there is limited assessment of what policies currently exist in U.S. communities to adapt to climate change. In this article, we develop a novel policy inventory for adaptation policies in five U.S. counties. Using a comprehensive definition of adaptation policy that includes policies that do not explicitly mention climate change, and a new taxonomy for coding these policies in a U.S. context, we identify 508 policies across these five locations. Through analysis of these policy inventories and interviews with local stakeholders, we identify four thematic policy gaps, as well as a major gap in policies to address extreme heat across all five locations. This first-of-its-kind climate policy assessment provides both a novel methodology to benchmark progress as well as recommendations for investment in local adaptation to climate change across the United States

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美国地方适应政策的进展和差距


随着气候影响的加剧，美国各地政府正在制定临时政策和计划，以提高各部门应对气候灾害的抵御能力，但对美国社区目前有哪些适应气候变化的政策的评估有限。在本文中，我们为美国五个县的适应政策制定了一份新颖的政策清单。使用适应政策的全面定义（包括未明确提及气候变化的政策）以及在美国背景下对这些政策进行编码的新分类法，我们确定了这五个地点的 508 项政策。通过对这些政策清单的分析以及对当地利益相关者的采访，我们确定了四个专题政策差距，以及解决所有五个地点极端高温的政策的主要差距。这项史无前例的气候政策评估既提供了一种新颖的方法来衡量进展情况，也为美国各地适应气候变化的投资提供了建议