People, local cultures and the environments they live in are complex and dynamic social-ecological systems that have evolved together over time and are continually affected by a myriad of factors, including climate and global changes. Escalating climate and global changes present an imminent threat to Pacific communities, particularly for food security, livelihoods, health and safety, cultural identity and biodiversity conservation. A participatory community-based climate change adaptation planning process was used to engage with communities on Rendova Island in Western Province, Solomon Islands to identify local adaptation priorities. The methodology recognized that local community members are the managers of the resources they use daily, have direct knowledge of the status of key local resources and have direct influence over ongoing resource governance. The study focused on two objectives: (1) identifying community priorities and documenting them in adaptation plans intended for local implementation, and (2) evaluating whether community adaptation priorities addressed key vulnerabilities identified independently using a semi-quantitative vulnerability assessment.

The adaptation priorities identified by the communities encompassed: governance, leadership and planning; farming and livestock; sustainable livelihoods; natural resource management; and youth capacity building. The community adaptation priorities were found to address the key climate change vulnerabilities identified in the semi-quantitative assessment and also addressed additional drivers of social vulnerability and adaptive capacity. This finding reiterates the importance of fully inclusive and participatory vulnerability assessments and community-identification of adaptation priorities coupled with scientific climate projections to comprehensively assess the complexity of social-ecological systems. The climate change adaptation priorities have informed ongoing local actions and are intended to be used by communities, government and NGOs to focus local effort, funding and project development. A review of the suitability of the adaptation priorities by similar villages on neighbouring islands would determine the utility of scaling-up and applying these adaptations to other rural communities in the Solomon Islands, and possibly more widely in other Pacific communities.

人、当地文化和他们生活的环境是复杂而动态的社会生态系统，它们随着时间的推移共同进化，并不断受到包括气候和全球变化在内的无数因素的影响。不断升级的气候和全球变化对太平洋社区构成迫在眉睫的威胁，特别是在粮食安全、生计、健康和安全、文化认同和生物多样性保护方面。所罗门群岛西部省伦多瓦岛的社区参与了以社区为基础的气候变化适应规划流程，以确定当地的适应优先事项。该方法认识到当地社区成员是他们日常使用的资源的管理者，直接了解当地关键资源的状况，并对正在进行的资源治理产生直接影响。该研究侧重于两个目标：（1）确定社区优先事项并将其记录在旨在供当地实施的适应计划中，以及（2）评估社区适应优先事项是否解决了使用半定量脆弱性评估独立确定的关键脆弱性。

社区确定的适应优先事项包括：治理、领导和规划；农业和畜牧业；可持续生计；自然资源管理；和青年能力建设。社区适应优先事项旨在解决半定量评估中确定的关键气候变化脆弱性，并解决社会脆弱性和适应能力的其他驱动因素。这一发现重申了充分包容和参与的脆弱性评估和社区确定适应优先事项以及科学气候预测的重要性，以全面评估社会生态系统的复杂性。气候变化适应优先事项为正在进行的地方行动提供了信息，并旨在供社区使用，政府和非政府组织将重点放在当地的努力、资金和项目开发上。对邻近岛屿上类似村庄的适应优先事项的适用性进行审查将确定扩大并将这些适应措施应用于所罗门群岛其他农村社区的效用，并可能更广泛地应用于其他太平洋社区。