APPENDIX ■ 287Victims to Victors, Disasters to Opportunities: Community-Driven
Responses to Climate Change in the Philippines
David Dodman, Diana Mitlin, and Jason Christopher Rayos Co
Advocates of community-based adaptation claim that it helps to identify, assist,
and implement community-based development activities, research, and policy
in response to climate change. However, there has been little systematic exami-
nation of the ways in which existing experiences of dealing with hazard events
can inform community-based adaptation. Th is paper analyzes the experience
of the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines Incorporated (HPFPI) in
respect to 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.
The Urban Poor’s Vulnerability to Climate Change in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Lucy Winchester and Raquel Szalachman
Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environ-
mental and sustainable development challenges, with signifi cant impacts on
human health, resource productivity and incomes, ecological “public goods,”
poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region
will exacerbate and create additional complexity, particularly in urban areas.
For hundreds of millions of urban dwellers in LAC, most of the risks from the
impacts of climate change are a result of development failures. For the urban
poor, this fact is disproportionately true. Th is paper seeks to contribute to the
limited body of knowledge regarding climate change, cities, and the urban poor
in the region and to inform how institutions, governance, and urban planning
are keys to understanding the opportunities and limitations to possible policy
and program advances in the area of adaptation.
Built-in Resilience: Learning from Grassroots Coping Strategies to
Climate Variability
Huraera Jabeen, Adriana Allen, and Cassidy Johnson
It is now widely acknowledged that the eff ects of climate change will dispro-
portionately increase the vulnerability of the urban poor in comparison to
other groups of urban residents. While signifi cant attention has been given
to exploring and unpacking “traditional” coping strategies for climate change
in the rural context—with a focus on agricultural responses and livelihoods
diversifi cation—with few exceptions, there is less work on understanding the