Background The threat of a rapidly changing planet–of coupled social, environmental and
climatic change–pose new conceptual and practical challenges in responding to vector …

Community-based adaptation (CBA) is an approach to strengthening the adaptive capacity
of local communities vulnerable to climate change. The CBA approach increasingly features …

Locally led adaptation (LLA) has recently gained importance against top-down planning
practices that often exclude the lived realities and priorities of local communities and create …

Executive summary The land challenges, in the context of this report, are climate change
mitigation, adaptation, desertification, land degradation, and food security. The chapter also …

A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the
concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations …

Community participation in climate change adaptation (CCA) programs has been advocated
for long, but its implementation remains uncertain. There is also very little understanding and …

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its
impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling …

Climate change significantly impacts agriculture. Building an informed and collaborative
process among stakeholders remains vital in minimizing climate risks and building climate …

This study was conducted in 12 unions of the Shyamnagar upazila in the Shatkira District,
located in the south-western coastal region of Bangladesh (SWCRB). The inhabitants of the …

The impacts of climatic hazards pose disproportionate risks on the poorer groups who are
often the least able to adapt. The low-income urban settlements 1 present the extreme cases …