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Tides and abrasions as the impact of climate change pose serious risks to coastal communities in Brebes Regency. The coastal communities of Brebes Regency have social capital for disaster risk reduction as a form of disaster adaptation and mitigation strategies. Social capital in disaster management is an effort to improve emergency preparedness and respond to the disaster recovery and reconstruction process. The objective of this research is to analyze the social capital of coastal area societies in the effort of disaster mitigation as the result of climate change into three social capital (bonding, bridging, linking). The respondents are the societies who join disaster care association in Kaliwlingi, Sawojajar, and Karangdempel Village, Brebes Subdistrict. The research result indicates that bonding social capital of Kaliwlingi, Sawojajar, and Karangdempel Village is seen from trust, norms, knowledge, awareness, social activities numbers and routine, participation, basic facility and individual-s characteristics. However, Karangdempel and Sawojajar village has lower social activities, participation, and awareness than Kaliwlingi Village. The bridging social capital in Kaliwlingi, Sawojajar, and Karangdempel Village can be seen fromsome groups. However, Sawojajar and Kaliwlingi Village has internal problem so that it reduces the benefits of group. Linking social capital runs well in Kaliwlingi and Sawojajar village because the stakeholder moves actively. However, there is a problem which reduces linking social capital in Sawojajar and Karangdempel Village and make it nonoptimal.