As climate change becomes a more obvious existential threat to many communities, sharper tools are needed to analyze policymaking and especially the variations in effective adaptive planning. While policy creation, preparedness and disaster management are essentially local activities, much analysis simply focuses on cities and overlooks robust tools to understand what happens within communities of all types. This paper explores the local state, an analytical framework which can connect our understanding of state, market and civil society within communities below the level of the nation state. The local state concept is resurgent within the academic literature and this paper shows the potential of this analysis, drawing on empirical examples of climate change adaptation from Tucson AZ and New Orleans, coupled with broader discussion from several countries.

随着气候变化对许多社区构成更明显的生存威胁，需要更敏锐的工具来分析政策制定，尤其是有效适应性规划的变化。虽然政策制定、准备和灾害管理本质上是本地活动，但很多分析只关注城市，而忽略了了解所有类型社区内发生的事情的强大工具。本文探讨了地方国家，这是一个分析框架，可以将我们对国家、市场和民族国家以下社区内公民社会的理解联系起来。地方州的概念在学术文献中重新出现，本文展示了这种分析的潜力，借鉴了亚利桑那州图森和新奥尔良的气候变化适应经验实例，