Understanding climate change adaptation: lessons from community-based approaches

This book addresses the issue of climate change adaptation and provides responses to important questions for the international aid community as it seeks to address the impact of climate change.

By combining eight case studies from South Asia, Africa and Latin America with an overall analytical framework, the authors demonstrate that although communities’ adaptation strategies vary and depend upon local context, social networks play a pivotal role in accessing useful knowledge and resources. Through such networks, the key activities of reducing vulnerability, fostering resilience, and developing the capacity to experiment and learn are combined and communicated to other communities.

This book is essential reading for NGO practitioners, students, and government and NGO policy makers who wish to gain an understanding of what adaptation means in theory and practice.