Enhancing Self-determined/Socio- Ecological Resilience to Flooding in marginalised communities of Ecuador and Peru Maria del Pilar Cornejo-Rodriguez, Mercy Julia Borbor-Cordova, Daniel Ochoa, Silvia Cristina Quispe-Prieto, Alberto Paucar-Caceres, Valeria Ruiz Vargas, David Haley, Jorge Espinoza-Molina, and Erbert Osco-Mamani Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 2 General Context ............................................................................... 2 Challenges to Build Ecological Resilience in Ecuador and Peru ............................ 3 Novel Approach to Enhance Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in Ecuador and Peru ....................................................................................... 4 Methodological Approach to Enhance the Resilience of Coastal Communities ................ 5 Research Questions ........................................................................... 6 Objectives ..................................................................................... 6 Methodological Stages ............................................................................ 7 Stage 1. Analysis of the Needs and Identification of Community-Based Projects .......... 7 Stage 2. Co-design of the Program/Model ................................................... 8 Stage 3. Impact Development ................................................................ 8 Implementation of the Program: Pilot Study and Report on the Principal Findings of Two Workshops in Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Tacna (Peru) ........................................... 8 M. del Pilar Cornejo-Rodriguez · M. Julia Borbor-Cordova · D. Ochoa Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador S. C. Quispe-Prieto · J. Espinoza-Molina · E. Osco-Mamani Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohman (UNJBG), Tacna, Peru A. Paucar-Caceres (*) Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK e-mail: a.paucar@mmu.ac.uk V. R. Vargas Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK e-mail: v.vargas@mmu.ac.uk D. Haley Visiting Professor Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_249-1 1