Researchers must be flexible and open to change, acknowledging that community needs and perspectives may evolve as the project advances. Flexibility implies the need for constant reflective attention, a consideration noted in decolonizing methodologies in general.116, 117 For example, theories and methods guiding projects considered participatory by researchers, may be viewed quite differently by communities as the work evolves, and may reinforce existing power differentials. Flexibility needs to also be balanced, however, within the context of the adaptation focus of CBA projects and skills of the researchers involved. Depending on the project and community interest, this may involve linking adaptation to more immediate socioeconomic concerns that also act as determinants of vulnerability to climate change (e.g., Ref 50), or more explicitly trying to bring in an adaptation lens.