Resilient flood loss response systems for vulnerable populations in Mumbai

Chatterjee, Monalisa

doi:10.7282/t3g44q2x

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“…Marginal communities such as slum dwellers, urban poor and homeless are most vulnerable to the water-induced risks. Slum settlements house approximately 55 percent of Mumbai's population and are mostly located in low lying areas close to marshes and other marginal places (Chatterjee, 2010). Slums in Mumbai are a significant element of urban landscape that inherit diverse communities based on livelihoods.…”

Section: Environmental Setting and Water Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Livelihood strategies to address water induced vulnerability on marginal settlements: Lessons from Northern Mozambique and Mumbai

Goyal¹,

Pereira²

2022

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Increase in water induced risks are realized with marginal settlements being more vulnerable due to limited adaptive capacity. The challenge put forward by climate change, in absence of adequate formal strategies, has forced the dwellers of marginal settlements, over the years, to adopt local adaptation strategies to survive the risk and live in harmony with water. The highly diverse characteristics based on livelihoods and social networks provide for adaptive capacity of the dwellers. The objective of the paper is to identify these strategies based on livelihoods or the daily activities of the dwellers within the marginal settlements in different territories. Rural marginal communities in Northern Mozambique and urban in Mumbai are assessed by direct observations, interpretation from collected images and literature review to present a framework of strategies based on livelihoods. Result provides for holistic findings that contribute to the lexicon of water-risk adaptation for marginal settlements in developing countries.

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Section: Environmental Setting and Water Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%