Community Based Adaptation
Community based adaptation recognises that environmental knowledge, vulnerability and resilience to climate impacts are embedded in societies and cultures. This means the focus is on empowering communities to themselves take action based on their own decision-making processes.
Increased resilience to climate stresses can be achieved by enabling communities to enhance their capacity to cope with climate extremes and surprises, such as hurricanes, floods or droughts. Although community based adaptation is an emerging area, efforts are being been made to develop participatory methodologies, raise awareness of climate change and foster adaptive capacity.
Background and policy resources
What is community based adaptation, and what are the concepts that underpin it? This section provides a broad introduction to CBA and hosts academic documents or those intended to guide policy formulation on community adaptation. More...
Case studies
Case studies which describe innovative approaches to community based adaptation or those which detail good practice can spark learning and inspiration about how adaptation activities elsewhere could be adopted in a local context. More...
Tools and practice
How do you 'do' community based adaptation? Fortunately there are an increasing number of useful tools, manuals and methodologies to help scope out, implement and assess practical grassroots interventions. More...
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