Challenges in developing urban flood resilience in India

Gupta, Kapil

doi:10.1098/rsta.2019.0211

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“…Flooding today must be both appreciated and managed as multifactorial events [48][49][50][51][52]. Therefore, developing guidelines and standard operating procedures in addition to the introduction of educational interventions, such as training campaigns, and designing mobile solutions aimed to enhance the knowledge and awareness among HCWs is highly recommended [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]. It is essential to make a major shift toward improvement as far as the notion of flood disaster preparedness for healthcare providers is concerned.…”

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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

Al-Wathinani

Alakeel

Alani

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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This study used a descriptive cross-sectional methodology to measure healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and willingness to respond to a flood scenario in Saudi Arabia. A validated survey was distributed to collect data using a convenience sampling technique through multiple social media platforms. A total of 227 participants were included in this study: 52% of them were aged between 26 to 34 years, 74% were residents from Riyadh, and 52.4% worked in nursing divisions. A significant number of respondents (73.2%) had positive perceptions towards their hospitals’ ability to provide an effective response to a flood, 89% were willing to report to work following a flood, and 90% of participants reported the need to develop both guidelines and training for flood disaster preparedness. Preparation and successful flood mitigation in the hospital setting requires staff that have both knowledge and training in emergency management. One way to obtain such readiness is through competency-based training, including both table-top and full-scale live exercises. Although the willingness to respond to such a flooding emergency was high among staff, the development of guidelines and educational programs is needed in order to develop the competencies and skills sets to improve disaster preparedness response and preparedness efforts.

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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

Al-Wathinani

Alakeel

Alani

et al. 2021

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“…Urbanization changes the geology of the catchments and subsurface through changes in basin slopes, soil permeability, and sediment transport (O'Donnell & Thorne, 2020). It also affects the hydrology of an area through changing the amount of precipitation, adding paved areas, decreasing water bodies, reducing groundwater recharge, and reducing the capacity of urban drainage channels (Gupta, 2020). Furthermore, since urbanization transforms rural and undeveloped regions such as forests, green lands, and agricultural lands into urban areas, flooding behavior will consequently change (O'Donnell & Thorne, 2020).…”

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The Role of Urban Growth in Resilience of Communities Under Flood Risk

2020

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Flood risk to urban communities is increasing significantly as a result of the integrated effects of climate change and socioeconomic development. The latter effect is one of the main drivers of rising flood risk has received less attention in comparison to climate change. Economic development and population growth are major causes of urban expansion in flood‐prone areas, and a comprehensive understanding of the impact of urban growth on flood risk is an essential ingredient of effective flood risk management. At the same time, planning for community resilience has become a national and worldwide imperative in recent years. Enhancements to community resilience require well‐integrated and enormous long‐term public and private investments. Accordingly, comprehensive urban growth plans should take rising flood risk into account to ensure future resilient communities through careful collaboration between engineers, geologists, socialists, economists, and urban planners within the framework of life‐cycle analysis. This paper highlights the importance of including urban growth in accurate future flood risk assessment and how planning for future urbanization should include measurement science‐based strategies in developing policies to achieve more resilient communities.

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“…The Indian Ocean experiences an average of 5–6 cyclonic activities in a year [ 32 ], affecting the coastal regions and interior parts with different intensities [ 10 ]. The settlements in the coastal areas, primarily major cities, are affected by not only cyclones but also various other natural disasters including sea-level rise [ 31 ], storm surge [ 8 ], and flood inundation [ 15 , 23 , 24 ].…”

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Influence of Super Cyclone “Amphan” in the Indian Subcontinent amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Shubham

Lal

Kumar

2021

Remote Sens Earth Syst Sci

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Tropical cyclone “Amphan” developed as a super cyclone on 19 May 2020 and caused severe impact on the landmass with very high torrential precipitation (>250 mm day −1 ), and extremely high wind speed (>150 km h −1 ) after landfall on 20 May 2020. The tropical cyclone Amphan largely affected agricultural land (78.2%) and forest, including mangroves (10.8%) in eastern India and Bangladesh. The built-up area over the trajectory of the cyclone and its proximity, including eastern parts of the Kolkata metropolitan area, was considerably affected by the cyclone due to the high population density and poor structural and community planning. Although the regions with close proximities to cyclones’ trajectory (2033 km 2 area under <2 km proximity) were affected severely, the presence of mangrove forest in Sundarban substantially reduced the magnitude of the tropical cyclone. A considerable decrease (~30%) in aerosol optical depth (AOD) in April–May 2020 as compared to that in 2019 is considered one of the major causes of the development of the warm pool and cyclogenesis in the Bay of Bengal. The number of COVID-19 cases increased by ~70% in the post-cyclonic period (29 May 2020) compared to that in the pre-cyclonic period (19 May 2020) illustrating the impact of the cyclonic hazard.

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Challenges in developing urban flood resilience in India

Cited by 47 publications

References 13 publications

A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

The Role of Urban Growth in Resilience of Communities Under Flood Risk

Influence of Super Cyclone “Amphan” in the Indian Subcontinent amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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