The study explores the cultural, socio-ecological, and institutional factors responsible for the present ways of handling natural hazards and coping with climate change challenges in Varna, a coastal city situated on the western Black Sea, Bulgaria. Diving into cultural perceptions of risk, governmental, social, and economic circumstances triggered after the political changes in 1989, and present state of development and implementation of disaster risk reduction, coastal management and climate adaptation legislation framework helped to reveal the main reasons behind the relatively low adaptive capacity and climate resilience of Varna.
