The Community Climate Adaptation Routemap is a practical guide to help communities adapt to climate change. No matter what kind of community you are, there are actions you can take to build resilience, prepare for climate change, and make your area healthier, safer, and more comfortable for people and wildlife.
This Routemap offers clear steps for local action groups, community councils, and development trusts to build their resilience to climate change.
Every community is unique, and so are the impacts of climate change on each place. Addressing climate change can feel overwhelming on top of everything else you’re already working on—it’s complex, interconnected, and it’s not always clear where to start. The Community Climate Adaptation Routemap is based on the belief that it’s both crucial and possible to build resilience and adapt to climate change while also addressing other important community issues like housing, transportation, and jobs.
This Routemap is useful for anyone who wants to:
- Understand and address climate change impacts in your community, now and in the future.
- Discover actions you can take to build resilience and adapt while tackling other community issues.
- Invest in your community to reduce future costs and find out what funding and support are available
The Routemap offers clear definitions of climate change adaptation and resilience, a simple overview of what climate change means for Scotland in the long term, and tools to understand local impacts. It includes 20 examples of practical adaptation actions and many resources to help your community adapt.
Adaptation Scotland produced the Routemap in collaboration with Highlands and Islands Climate Hub, the Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS), North East Scotland Climate Action Network (NESCAN Hub), and the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) alongside contributions from ReadyScot, Sustrans, Architecture & Design Scotland, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and others.
