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Many of the communities across Southeast Asia are struggling to cope with a number of climate change-related hazards that include cyclones, rainfall extremes, floods, and droughts with severe damage and loss of life (Yuen and Kong 2009; ADB 2009). The rising frequency and intensity of weather extremes related to climate change has resulted to a wide array of risks and vulnerabilities that necessitated urgent attention and actions. In effect, a growing understanding by the public on the urgent need to adapt to the changing climate could be directly observed in the immediate past years. Such observation is directly correlated to the physical manifestation of climate change, particularly in terms of climate variability and extremes, which are becoming more and more highly observable and with wide-ranging impacts largely felt across the entire spectrum of the society.