ABSTRACT
To date, the local and regional effects of climate change are most significantly affecting and being responded to by vulnerable, exposed communities in various parts of the world. Our understanding of climate change effects for human communities depends on our ability to develop concepts that not only appropriately frame the nature of the risks and results those effects usher in but also that inform the development of strategies and practices that enable us to reduce those risks and results (Lavell 2011). Three concepts of varying longevity in anthropology have recently been deployed to help us to understand and respond to the effects of climate change: adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. All three concepts have, in one guise or another, implicitly or explicitly, been the subject of anthropological enquiry throughout the history of the discipline.
