Community based adaptation includes a range of initiatives that put communities at the centre of planning for adaptation, often led by communities themselves . Community based adaptation is a comprehensive and effective strategy to deliver resilience at a human scale . Many community based responses to climate impacts represent coping strategies developed within households with a small effect on adaptation capacities beyond incremental improvements. Residents adopt private coping strategies to reduce exposure to and the impacts of heat, floods, flash floods, landslides, storms and diseases on their lives . These coping strategies include the construction of physical protection against flooding, reforestation, the construction of terraces, flood diversion measures and interventions to protect houses , ventilation of houses, urban agriculture and redefinition of daily practices and livelihoods .
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