Cambodia is a tropical and underdeveloped country with a population of 13.4 million people, 80.5 percent of them living in rural areas. The 2007 census data indicate that 30.1 percent of the population lived under the poverty line, the highest rate among Southeast Asian countries. The 2007 Cambodian SocioEconomic Survey shows that 77.5 percent of rural labor was in the agricultural sector, which includes crop production, livestock, farming, and fishing, occupations that are highly climate sensitive (Royal Government of Cambodia [RGC] 2008a). Cambodia has a relatively low adaptive capacity to climate change compared with other Southeast Asian countries (Yusuf and Francisco 2009). Building community resilience is critical, especially because the country lacks a climate change adaptation plan (RGC 2011). The World Bank (2009a) supports this, arguing that not only government institutions play an important role in climate change adaptation, but also community institutions and civil society organizations. This notion is reinforced by Storbjork and Hedren (2011) who identified weak vertical administrative function and networking capacity as barriers to sea-level rise adaptation in a Swedish coastal management project. Additionally, Nooteboom (2007) notes that due to limited presence of formal institutions, developing countries require social capital for local development, even though this type of capital is based on personal trust and thus tends to be fragile. In a broader context, the literature (Adger 2003; Brooks 2003; Turner et al. 2003; UNFCCC 2006; Lebel et al. 2009; Preston and Stafford-Smith 2009; Veraart and Bakker 2009) underscores that taking social determinants into consideration is imperative in addressing climate change adaptation.