Climate change and sea level rise present significant risks to coastal governments’ fiscal and service solvency. Current lack of focus on climate change by the U.S. federal and some state governments pressures coastal governments to develop tractable solutions to manage localized risks. This research integrates adaptive governance and capital planning literatures to develop an adaptive risk management framework. Heeding the call for research of coastal county actions to plan for and respond to climate change, we conduct content analysis of planning documents, financial reports, meeting minutes, media reports, and other documentation of all coastal counties in Florida to quantify government efforts to address climate change. Risk management practices are hierarchically categorized by focus area, risk type, and tactic and placed within the adaptive risk management process framework. A well-functioning adaptive risk management process can redefine vague climate change risks into knowable, tractable problems to address.

气候变化和海平面上升对沿海政府的财政和服务偿付能力构成了重大风险。美国联邦政府和一些州政府当前对气候变化的关注不足，迫使沿海政府开发易于处理的解决方案来管理局部风险。这项研究整合了适应性治理和资本计划文献，以开发适应性风险管理框架。我们听取了有关对沿海县采取行动以计划和应对气候变化的研究的呼吁，我们对佛罗里达州所有沿海县的计划文件，财务报告，会议记录，媒体报道和其他文件进行了内容分析，以量化政府为解决这一问题所做的努力气候变化。风险管理实践按重点领域，风险类型，和策略，并置于自适应风险管理流程框架内。一个运作良好的适应性风险管理流程可以将模糊的气候变化风险重新定义为可解决的已知问题。