Adaptive capacity indicators on climate change: Some insights from the oil spill affected communities in Guimaras, Philippines and its implications to environmental education

Abstract

Environmental education's thematic response to climate change in different scales (household community and national) is often seen to highlight mitigation approaches rather than adaptation This is understandable since climate change discourse has its academic and theoretical undertones literature on the subject would stress. This paper explores the identification of indicators that can be the bases for adaptation measures that may strengthen the households adaptive capacity in times of climate variability. Applied during the oil spill in Guimaras, the household adaptive capacity index allows identification of indicators that may be used to strengthen household adaptation during climate variability.