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For real, lasting climate adaptation and to avoid maladaptation, there is a need to complement top-down with bottom-up approach to climate adaptation-one that includes and empowers the communities most at risk as equal partners.

This report examines the role of community-led climate adaptation in enhancing the inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability of cities, focusing on rapidly growing informal settlements.

When high-impact weather events drive long-term policy decisions, there is a risk of implementing changes that seem protective but actually increase the risk of future disasters or misallocate limited resources.

This study describes how local capacity building can address false information in community-based disaster risk management.

Tightly connected communities tend to be more resilient when facing extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or wildfires. Research suggests that community cohesion helps boost the community's ability to withstand disasters.

Kahikinui is one of dozens of Hawaii communities seeking ways to protect themselves as decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies culminate to cause more destructive fires.

By integrating weather forecasts with historical data and community insights, all combined in a simple-to-use digital tool, Cameroon's cholera EAP shows that epidemic preparedness is not only possible but essential for building resilient health systems.

PREDES, a Peruvian NGO, builds community resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. Projects like the Kawsaypacha initiative in Cusco blend ancestral knowledge with science to address floods, droughts, and local vulnerabilities.