Community Digital Storytelling for Locally Led Adaptation: Practice, opportunities and challenges

This article examines Community Digital Storytelling (CDST) as a participatory method that supports Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) by amplifying Indigenous and local voices and exposing structural drivers of vulnerability in climate research and practice. Designed by the author and implemented in collaboration with Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, CDST draws on oral traditions, Indigenous epistemologies, and creative visual storytelling to co-produce short films t