Abstract
Adaptability is the base in the concept of adaptation, it activates social adaptation, have an impact on susceptibility reduction and on increasing of resilience to threats in communities at the local level. What is more, it allows to strengthen the economic opportunities of the society, uninterrupted social communication, social education process and social capital building, which is necessary in resilience building to threats. The subject of research in this article is adaptation capacities of the community at the local level. The main goal of the research was to identify the essence of adaptive abilities in building resilience to threats in communities at the local level. The research problem took the form of the following question: How important is adaptability in building resilience to threats in communities at the local level?