"Sometime, somewhere, maybe someone has to do something"

Sammanfattning: In response to sea level rise, municipalities in Sweden are already underway in the process of constructing seawalls to protect infrastructure and communities. However, these adaptive measures are not always well received in the communities they are intended to protect. This thesis examined a case of citizen protests against a proposed seawall on the Falsterbo peninsula in Vellinge, Scania, through the concepts of place attachment and climate change perception. The aim was to understand how residents’ relation to their place and their perception of climate change may affect adaptation acceptance. Through a combination of thematic analysis of documents and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the thesis explored the relationship between place attachment, climate change perception and sea level rise adaptation. The findings showed that place attachment may function as a factor in both citizen adaptation acceptance and resistance in expressions of place disruption due to the instructive element the seawall may pose. Past experiences of physical climate change are more influential in residents’ perceptions than projections of the future.