Baek and colleagues identify a precise failure mode between planning and implementation: evidence can be formally incorporated into a plan and still cease to be available, intelligible or decision-relevant when responsibility moves to implementation actors. Their multi-site qualitative design traces climate information across municipal stages through interviews and documents, treating local governments as sites of evidence handoff rather than merely as cases to compare. The methodological operation is stage-to-stage tracing. Evidence attributes, stakeholder capacities and the evidence–policy interface are analysed together to diagnose where usability is filtered out. Coarse outputs, staff rotation, fragmented repositories, limited translation channels and legacy administrative indicators all weaken continuity even when assessment procedures have been formally satisfied. The paper bridges climate services, adaptation governance and evidence-based policy. It matters because it converts the planning–implementation gap into an epistemic problem of transition. Persistence depends on explicit linkages between assessment, rationale, siting, budgets and performance indicators, as well as on institutional mechanisms capable of carrying meaning across organisational handoffs.
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