Many experts agree that governments should focus on ______ to deal with the effects of climate change.

CHIP increased states’ flexibility with regard to administering health-care benefits.

______ has become a big buzzword for civic leaders who are looking for ways their communities can cope with and bounce back from environmental changes that are already widely evident.

States have sought to fill the vacuum left by the absence of federal leadership on an issue that state leaders themselves realize calls for a national set of solutions.

One of the challenges that states and local governments face when crafting adaptation plans is that ______.

In 1805, New York City created the first ______ in the United States.

Under managed care programs, states pay doctors directly for medical services and fees.

According to the text, those who do go into teaching often ______.

______ is the rapid growth of a metropolitan area characterized by single-use zoning, low-density development, leapfrog development, car-dependent living, and fragmentation of land-use powers.

Meeting required targets for reliance on renewable energy remains difficult in regions like the South and Midwest which rely heavily on coal for power.