Abstract: At this seminar I will present the findings presented in my first article as part of my PhD-project. The article reports from a case study on of Lolland, an appointed flood risk area. We find that even though home owners know about climate change and believe it will happen they do not think it will affect their everyday life. We argue that the reason for this can be found in people’s experience with and connection to their natural and technological landscape. Large parts of Lolland are located under sea level and two thirds of rainwater falling in the municipality is pumped into the ocean. The people of Lolland are used to live in a landscape where the water is always present. They do not frame the floods that do happen as an effect of climate change, because for them flooding is nothing new. Further, their experiences tell them that pumping stations and dikes are able to control the water and prevent flooding, now and in the future. This personal and collective experience with their local landscape makes the home owners in Lolland feel that climate change does not pose a particular threat for them. Consequently most of them do not see any reason to take personal adaptation measures.