Community-Based Adaptation

The difference between a community-based adaptation project and a standard development project is not principally in the intervention, but in the way the intervention is developed: not what the community is doing, but why and with what knowledge. The aim is to enable the community to understand and integrate the concept of climate risk into their livelihood activities in order to increase their resilience to immediate climate variability and long-term climate change. Community-based adaptation is essentially an action research approach to the problem of climate change impacts on livelihoods.

From Community-based adaptation and culture in theory and practice, Jonathan Ensor and Rachel Berger, 2009.

 

Sixth Annual International Community-Based Adaptation Conference
A small team from TNC attended the conference held in Hanoi from 15-22 April 2012. Over 300 people attended from 61 countries. The TNC team representing work in the pacific island states was nearly the sole representation of work in the Pacific. Learn more about their presentations and work.

 

Tools

• Indicators to assess community-level climate change vulnerability: An addendum to SocMon and SEM-Pasifika regional socioeconomic monitoring guidelines, first draft for public circulation and field testing, Supin Wongbusarakum and Christy Loper
• Climate Witness Community Toolkit, WWF—South Pacific Programme
• Pacific Cultural Mapping, Planning and Policy Toolkit, Katerina Teaiwa and Colin Mercer, Secretariat of the Pacific Community
• Community-Based Adaptation Toolkit, CARE
• Community-Based Risk Screening Tool, Cristal User's Manual
• Adapting to Climate Variability and Change, A Guidance Manual for Development Planning, USAID
• Canadian Communities’ Guidebook for Adaptation to Climate Change, Including an approach to generate mitigation co-benefits in the context of sustainable development, Livia Bizikova, Tina Neale, and Ian Burton, Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver

 

Information Sharing

• eldis: Climate and Community, sharing the best in development, policy, practice and research
• The Center for Sustainable Development
• Global Climate Change Impacts in the US, United States Global Change Research Program
• A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change, Sustaining Tropical Coastal Communities and Industries, N. A. Marshall, P. A. Marshall, J. Tamelander, D. Obura, D. Malleret-King and J. E. Cinner, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• Promising Practices in Adaptation & Resilience, A Resource Guide for Local Leaders, Institute for Sustainable Communities
• Rural Climate Change Policy

 

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