Sub-national actors and city officials including mayors and other executives are among the individuals most often described and assessed as climate policy entrepreneurs . City-level climate policy entrepreneurs often operate using their own experience, connections and persistence to address issues of importance to their constituency. Climate risk concerns are often inherently local, and in turn local decision makers perceive it as being appropriate to engage. Conversely, the absence of effective leadership negatively affects adaptation success . Urban climate policy entrepreneurs operate in four key spheres of policy development and implementation: attention and support seeking strategies; linking strategies ; relational management strategies ; and arena strategies including timing . The presence and operation of urban climate policy entrepreneurs is positively associated in settings with multiple jurisdictions and across differing spatial scales .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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