Margerum, Richard D.Adams, SteveBruce, Josh2023-07-062023-07-062019978-88-99243-93-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/343Collaboration has been increasingly used to address complex regional problems that cross political boundaries and jurisdictions. The roles, approaches and implementation issues associated with collaboration strategies and networks have been widely discussed in the research literature, but there has been less analysis of the approaches and deliberations associated with convening collaborative efforts. This paper explores the issues, dialogue and framing of collaborative efforts through a cross case comparison of climate change mitigation and adaption actions plans across the United States. In this first phase, we present the findings from our content analysis of documents, agreements and web sites. When analyzed by strategy (mitigation versus greenhouse gas reduction) and approach (alignment versus joint action), we found two distinct groupings: (1) efforts largely focused on mitigating effects through alignment; and (2) efforts drawing on joint action and alignment to consider mitigation and greenhouse gas reduction. Our next phase of the project will use interviews to analyze the political, institutional, and other factors affecting this framing.enclimate change collaborationregional governanceconsensus buildingArticle1879-1888