For too long climate change adaptation was taken as a problem to be addressed through technological fixes. Using a place-based and contextual approach to imaginaries, we present emerging dialectics that collectively bring a set of knowledge to address climate adaptation challenges. With the analysis of the Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in the Gandaki River Basin, Western Nepal, we explore how local adaptation initiatives promote sociotechnical imaginaries and how it translates to social practice. Drawing on an initial field visit, stakeholder interviews, a scoping review, and the analysis of LAPA documents, this article reveals that local adaptation practices not only are designed to address climatic challenges but are also a response to a host of other ongoing stresses and are firmly connected to local communities. Although the LAPA initiative in Nepal looks innovative, there still is a need to reinforce grassroots-level initiatives and practices with the use of both traditional and modern knowledge and capacity to enhance the adaptation action at the local level. The study of Nepal’s LAPA shows how both scientific and traditional knowledge coalesce at the community level as a response to changing climate, illustrating the complex and hybrid nature of climate adaptation.

长期以来，气候变化适应被视为需要通过技术修复来解决的问题。我们使用基于地点和语境的方法来想象，提出新兴的辩证法，这些辩证法共同带来了一套知识来应对气候适应挑战。通过分析尼泊尔西部甘达基河流域的地方适应行动计划 (LAPA) 倡议，我们探讨了地方适应倡议如何促进社会技术想象，以及它如何转化为社会实践。根据初步实地考察、利益相关者访谈、范围界定审查和 LAPA 文件分析，本文揭示了地方适应实践不仅旨在应对气候挑战，而且也是对许多其他持续压力的回应，并且是与当地社区紧密相连。尽管尼泊尔的 LAPA 倡议看起来很创新，但仍然需要利用传统和现代知识和能力加强基层倡议和实践，以加强地方一级的适应行动。对尼泊尔 LAPA 的研究表明，科学知识和传统知识如何在社区层面结合起来以应对不断变化的气候，说明气候适应的复杂性和混合性。