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This chapter presents lessons from two case studies where researchers engaged in the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process in two communities in southern coastal Puerto Rico as part of Whole Communities Resilience Planning Program (WCRP). We discuss how listening to participants’ lived experiences of displacement and government disinvestment “unsettled” the VCAPS approach and revealed nuances around the limits to adaptation, the importance of place-based experiences, local flood perceptions, and everyday adaptations mediated by institutions and power relations. As a tool of participatory research, we discuss how VCAPS became a platform for thinking about complex local hazard perceptions and participatory methodologies for climate adaptation research. We conclude by offering insights into building more equitable climate adaptation partnerships that can: (1) orient toward climate justice concerns, (2) address multiple hazards in a changing climate, (3) account for everyday adaptations and coping mechanisms that support people’s desire to remain in place, and (4) give space for participants to express a broad range of community concerns and explore—rather than assume—their link to climate risks.

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The Limits to Adaptation: Reflections from VCAPS Exercises in Two Southern Coastal Communities in Puerto Rico

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    2026年

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  • Sarah Molinari,
  • Seth P. Tuler

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This chapter presents lessons from two case studies where researchers engaged in the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process in two communities in southern coastal Puerto Rico as part of Whole Communities Resilience Planning Program (WCRP). We discuss how listening to participants’ lived experiences of displacement and government disinvestment “unsettled” the VCAPS approach and revealed nuances around the limits to adaptation, the importance of place-based experiences, local flood perceptions, and everyday adaptations mediated by institutions and power relations. As a tool of participatory research, we discuss how VCAPS became a platform for thinking about complex local hazard perceptions and participatory methodologies for climate adaptation research. We conclude by offering insights into building more equitable climate adaptation partnerships that can: (1) orient toward climate justice concerns, (2) address multiple hazards in a changing climate, (3) account for everyday adaptations and coping mechanisms that support people’s desire to remain in place, and (4) give space for participants to express a broad range of community concerns and explore—rather than assume—their link to climate risks.