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There has een a lot published on this topic, but it depends, what you mean with 'scientific validation'. Many studies are done using qualitative methods, which are done in specific contexts which are often difficult to transfer to other situations. These are case studies that are valid in thei rown contexts. Still it makes much sense to read them as they provide insights in what aspects are considered relevant of community base climate change adaptation. Some recent of these contributions are:

Rajib Shaw, Rajib Shaw, Juan M. Pulhin, Joy Jacqueline Pereira

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges

0857244876, 9780857244871

Emerald Group Publishing, Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management

2010

Pulhin, Juan M.; Pereira, Joy J.; Shaw, Rajib

Climate change adaptation and disaster risk management : an Asian perspective [1st ed.]

9780857244864, 0857244868

Emerald, Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management

2010

E. Lisa F. Schipper, Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up [1 ed.]

0415623693, 9780415623698

Routledge

2014

Amireeta K. Rawlani; Benjamin K. Sovacool

Building responsiveness to climate change through community based adaptation in Bangladesh

Springer-Verlag

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Year:2011

Month:12

Day:

Volume:16

Issue:8

First page:845

Last page:863

Kristie L. Ebi; Jan C. Semenza

Community-Based Adaptation to the Health Impacts of Climate Change

Elsevier

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Year:2008

Month:

Day:

Volume:35

Issue:5

First page:0

Last page:507

Ahmed, Nesar; Bunting, Stuart W.; Rahman, Sanzidur; Garforth, Christopher J.

Community-based climate change adaptation strategies for integrated prawn-fish-rice farming in Bangladesh to promote social-ecological resilience

Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)

Reviews in Aquaculture

Year:2014

Month:03

Day:

Volume:6

Issue:1

First page:20

Last page:35

Ayers, Jessica; Forsyth, Tim

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Informa UK (Heldref Publications)

Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development

Year:2009

Month:09

Day:

Volume:51

Issue:4

First page:22

Last page:31

McNamara, Karen Elizabeth

Taking stock of community-based climate-change adaptation projects in the Pacific

Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Year:2013

Month:12

Day:

Volume:54

Issue:3

First page:398

Last page:405

Wright, Helena; Vermeulen, Sonja; Laganda, Gernot; Olupot, Max; Ampaire, Edidah; Jat, M.L.

Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Climate and Development

Year:2014

Month:10

Day:02

Volume:6

Issue:4

First page:318

Last page:328

Permpibul, W; Routray, Jayant Kumar

Community-based adaptation to climate change: The case of Thailand

IOP Publishing

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Year:2009

Month:02

Day:01

Volume:6

Issue:41

McNamara, Karen Elizabeth; Buggy, Lisa

Community-based climate change adaptation: a review of academic literature

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Local Environment

Year:2016

Month:08

Day:05

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:18

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Adapting to climate change in the coastal regions of Bangladesh: proposal for the formation of community-based adaptation committees

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Environmental Hazards

Year:2016

Month:07

Day:20

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:29

Hammouri, Nezar; Al-Qinna, Mohammad; Salahat, Mohammad; Adamowski, Jan; Prasher, Shiv O.

Community based adaptation options for climate change impacts on water resources: The case of Jordan

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Journal of Water and Land Development

Year:2015

Month:01

Day:1

Volume:26

Issue:1

Marshall, Graham R.; Hine, Donald W.; East, Miriam J.

Can community-based governance strengthen citizenship in support of climate change adaptation? Testing insights from Self-Determination Theory

Elsevier

Environmental Science & Policy

Year:2017

Month:06

Day:

Volume:72

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:9

Karim, Md. Rezaul; Thiel, Andreas

Role of community based local institution for climate change adaptation in the Teesta riverine area of Bangladesh

Elsevier

Climate Risk Management

Year:2017

Month:6

Groulx, Mark

“Other people’s initiatives”: exploring mediation and appropriation of place as barriers to community-based climate change adaptation

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Local Environment

Year:2017

Month:07

Day:08

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:16

Velempini, Kgosietsile; Smucker, Thomas A.; Clem, Kyle R.

Community-based adaptation to climate variability and change: mapping and assessment of water resource management challenges in the North Pare highlands, Tanzania

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

African Geographical Review

Year:2016

Month:09

Day:30

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:22

Tilahun, Minyahel; Angassa, Ayana; Abebe, Aster

Community-based knowledge towards rangeland condition, climate change, and adaptation strategies: the case of Afar pastoralists

Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)

Ecological Processes

Year:2017

Month:12

Day:

Volume:6

Issue:1

First page:29

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Article Climate Change Adaptation Tools at the Community Level: An I...

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Article Community-based adaptation: A review of past and future challenges