Advocates of community-based adaptation claim that it heaps to identify, assist, and implement community-based development activities, research and policy in response to climate change. However, there has been little systematic examination of the ways in which existing experiences of dealing with hazard events con inform communily-based adaptation. This article analyses the experience of the Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines in respect of community-led disaster responses, with the aim of informing future discussions on the role of planning for climate change adaptation in low- and middle-income countries.
Dodman, D; Mitlin, D; Co, JR
Victims to victors, disasters to opportunities Community-driven responses to climate change in the Philippines
International Development Planning Review