Abstract

Promoting processes of Transformational Adaptation to ‘climate change’ with broad bases of participation, imposes several tensions and challenges in the current crisis of civilization. Possible responses have emerged from 'inclusive governance', which suggest inserting such processes into national agendas. However, building a 'climate agenda' in line with national projects requires, at least, consideration of the perception of the climate crisis of the different actors involved, as well as methodological proposals that operationalize the relationship between socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience. This paper presents the results of a joint evaluation of the perception of vulnerability and resilience in the community of San José de Galipán, Venezuela, for which two indexes were designed ad hoc, Community Resilience Index (IRC) And Community Vulnerability Index (IVC). The IRC allows a synthetic, relational and participative evaluation of certain political, economic, psychosocial and environmental aspects of a community, keys to confer resilience and to make visible fundamental aspects in the production and reproduction of the vulnerability, estimated with the IVC. The discussion of the results obtained (IRC = 2.55, low resilience; IVC = 3.45, average vulnerability), contextualized in community life projects, are a fertile input for the collective construction of risk scenarios and prioritization of threats (climatic and non - climatic) as well as for the establishment of proposals for adaptive and transformative changes, as discussed in this paper.