Climate change and natural hazards:the geography of community resilience

Abstract This special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography originates from the research project ‘Climate change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway’, 1 based in the Department of Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The project was designed as a response to the Research Council of Norway’s call for increased knowledge of how society can and should adjust to meet the challenges of climate change. A key purpose of the project was to investigate what form community resilience to climate-related natural hazards might take in different Norwegian municipalities and how it could be strengthened