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Record W1561711875 · doi:10.24124/c677/2012379

The Role of Climate Change Policy Work in Canada

2012· article· en· W1561711875 on OpenAlex
Adam Wellstead, Richard C. Stedman

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Political Science Review · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSustainability and Climate Change Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimate changeVulnerability (computing)Government (linguistics)Work (physics)Public policyBusinessPolitical economy of climate changeEnvironmental resource managementPolitical sciencePublic economicsEconomicsEconomic growthEngineering

Abstract

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An ongoing concern with many Canada’s governments
 is avoiding climate change related policy failure,
 including that associated with climate change. In response,
 there has been a spate of government-led climate change
 vulnerability and risk assessments, studies, and strategies.
 With a growing attention on developing the ‘right’ policies
 and program to address climate change needs to be examined
 as an important factor in ‘adaptive capacity’. As governments
 turn their attention from broad strategizing to
 policy-making, we argue that a consideration of the often
 overlooked micro-level and seemingly routine government
 based capacity—especially the advice needed to formulate
 and implement policy changes—is required. A high level of
 policy capacity is an important factor in avoiding policy
 failures. The questionnaire was delivered through a webbased
 survey of 1469 Canadian provincial and territorial
 government policy analysts working in nine provinces and
 three territorial jurisdictions in the climate change, environmental,
 financial, forestry, natural resource, infrastructure,
 transportation, and water sectors. A comparison of
 mean scores across key indicators of policy work was conducted.
 A number of policy implications were raised. First,
 those in financial sector do very little climate change policy
 work. Second, the fracturing of roles in those departments
 responsible for forestry reflects the complexity of the climate
 change issue and a developed division of labour. Those who
 identified with forestry sector, under performed despite their
 concern about climate change, in terms of key policy tasks,
 the level of complexity that the issues were addressed and a
 low level engagement with stakeholders with those outside
 of government. Policy capacity was also undermined with a
 view that departments were committed vis a vis their mission
 statements but that this commitment was not reflected
 in their daily operations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.285
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it