Coastal fisher communities depend on access to waters and adjacent land, which can be disrupted by climate change adaptation (CCA) programs, potentially dispossessing the most vulnerable of their livelihoods, putting them at greater risks of displacement and reinforcing their vulnerabilities to climate impacts. The challenges posed by CCA programs show how climate and societal change occur simultaneously and must be tackled together. Drawing on theories on dispossession, displacement, eco-justice and climate change adaptation, we will bring out novel connections between these different fields. To analyze the gendered dimensions of dispossession and highlight contextual and social vulnerabilities, we use an intersectional approach, highlighting the co-constitution of inequalities. We are mapping existing CCA initiatives in each of the four regions of study and using historical and current GIS data to document physical changes. Analysis of global CCA research is being used to ask: 

1. What are the unintended consequences of climate change adaptation interventions in the Sundarbans, Ghana and the Philippines? 
2. How do CCA programs contribute to gendered/ intersectional processes of dispossession and displacement? 
3. What intersectional factors can explain how adaptation practices, actions, and their outcomes emerge in each site? and 
4. How do we assess or evaluate these consequences as displacement and dispossession? Finally, we are using participatory ethnographic methods with selected communities in Ghana, India and the Philippines to further explore these questions and co-construct inclusive solutions with vulnerable groups.

Our approaches develop three solution pathways: 

1. Novel interdisciplinary theories of CCA
2. A mapping of CCA programs to identify risks of dispossession and guidelines for best practices
3. The creation of a South-South coastal community network, using a low- tech platform, to share knowledge and create a coastal toolkit