This policy brief presents the perceptions, resilience and adaptive capacity of flood-affected communities in Prek Prasop District, Kratie province, Cambodia. It also shows the perceived causes, actual impacts and local responses to hazards at the community level. These are results from eight workshops conducted in June 2016 in four villages in two communes, which encompassed focus group discussions and participatory mapping. This brief confirms that local knowledge is as expert as scientific scholarship, and has complimentary features that hard-core scientific tools (such as satellites) cannot capture.