The Gibika Research to Action project has conducted repeated fieldwork in three study sites to gain a clearer idea regarding the climatic stressors communities are faced with and how people in these villages are responding to these environmental stressors. All three sites are in the coastal region of Bangladesh, and most of the people are involved in agriculture or fishing or both. The first site is Dalbanga south, situated at the bank of Bishkhali River in Barguna district, Barisal division. The second study site is Mazer Char, a char land situated in the middle of the Baleshwari river in Pirojpur district, Barisal division. Being a char land, the soil of this site is very fertile since sediments generate it. However, riverbank erosion is eating up the land and decreasing the overall surface area. The third site is Gabtola, situated at the bank of Baleshwari river, in Bagerhat district, Khulna division. Gabtola has a concrete embankment; therefore riverbank erosion is no longer a problem in the site. However, during both cyclones Sidr (2007) and Aila (2009), the embankment was destroyed, flooding the surrounding areas. The study conducted multiple field visits in the selected study sites, using qualitative methods, including Livelihood Histories and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools. The main agenda of this study was to understand how diversely different environmental stressors impact the livelihood resilience of the study sites. This article highlights a more people = oriented, qualitative research approach in the form of Livelihood Histories (LH) interviews and different PRA tools (Ayeb-Karlsson, van der Geest, Ahmed, Huq, & Warner, 2016). These tools emphasize people – their state, adaptive strategies and challenges they face while dealing with environmental stress. It is crucial to understand different shocks, stressors and disasters from a social and anthropological point of view (OliverSmith, 1996), and in order to understand the complex rural development process and its relationship with livelihood dynamics, the qualitative tool Livelihood Histories (LH) has been applied in this study (Cannon, Twigg, & Rowell, 2003; Scoones, 1998). Livelihood history tool is an important tool to understand livelihood dynamics as it captures individual life stories of the respondents to know about the changes in their livelihoods (Van der Geest, 2004). Semi-structured interviews have been conducted to identify the dynamic effects of different environmental stressors and shocks on people, their immediate coping strategies, recovery measures, challenges faced in the path of recovery and success rate of the measures. Livelihood Histories are in-depth interviews focused on people’s livelihoods and their periodic changes. The team conducted four livelihood history interviews including two male and two female informants at each site. Most of the interviews were on average, two to three hours long, consisting of around thirty questions. The main aim of the interviews was to understand the livelihood system, its changes and the impact of environmental stressors on it. Three Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools were implemented, all of them being Focus Group Discussion (FGD) sessions with about eight to twelve persons. The sessions were separately organized into groups for men and for women, during which the research team tried to draw reflections from people of different age, occupations, classes, levels of education. The duration of PRA sessions was one to two hours each. The vulnerability has always been viewed either on the basis of damage caused by a specific environmental stressor or by the condition before a hazard hits (Brooks, 2003). Vulnerability levels depend on social and economic factors such as political economy, access to resources, assets and so forth. Social vulnerability shows the summation of the entire socio-economic condition of an individual, and when a disaster increases one’s vulnerability, it disrupts the interaction of his different social factors (Brouwer, Akter, Brander, & Haque, 2007; Warner, 2007). Vulnerability and resilience are both co-related and resilience depends on people’s responsiveness and resisting or recovering capacity from the negative effects of the environment. When people cannot make their life and livelihoods resilient, they become vulnerable in the face of different environmental stressors.