Climate Change, Resilience and Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities for Local Communities

Abstract

While climate change is clearly a global emergency requiring global solutions, there is increasing understanding of the diverse challenges and opportunities that local communities face in strengthening resilience to its impacts and implications. Evidence is also growing about the crucial contribution that local actions and networks can make in strengthening community resilience – and in driving the broader social and political transformations needed to prevent catastrophic climate change in ways that are ecologically healthy, just and democratic. This chapter has two aims. The first aim is to bring together recent evidence and learning about the characteristics that strengthen community resi..