Have you ever wondered how and to what extent a changing climate has affected the lives and livelihoods of poorest of the poor people in many developing countries? This course exposes you to key themes in the climate change adaptation and international development debate, and enable you to acquire a critical understanding of the current climate change and development issues affecting the capacity and well-being of local communities in Australia and developing countries. In doing so, the course will consider climate impacts and adaptation actions to be inevitably local, and local adaptation practices to climate change not to be assumed to occur in a fair and equitable way. Specifically, the course provides you with necessary theoretical background as well as a set of important case studies to understand and tackle important climate change and development challenges. The course also examines how local level responses are shaped by multi-level climate governance processes. You will be able to explore how adaptation responses to climate change impacts can be made more equitable in relation to the livelihoods of poor and disadvantaged community groups in the context of developing countries.