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Identification of vulnerable areas in municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai due to extreme events based on socio economic indicators

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Title Identification of vulnerable areas in municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai due to extreme events based on socio economic indicators
 
Creator ABHYANKAR, AA
PALIWAL, M
PATWARDHAN, A
INAMDAR, AB
 
Subject Municipal Corporation
Exposure
Relief capacity
Hierarchical Cluster
Socio-economic indicators
 
Description Study area, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has very high population density. There are a large number of environmental issues and climate related concerns which collectively make the city vulnerable to both natural and man-made hazards. Mumbai is the financial capital of India and also have a large port facility. In this scenario the effects of both man-made and natural hazards are immense on the economy. Socio-economic parameters play an important role in reducing impacts due to these events. This study identifies the exposure and relief parameters for Mumbai city and Mumbai suburban. These two districts are classified into 24 wards. To group these wards on the basis of similar socio-economic characteristics, exploratory cluster analysis was performed. Paper reports high exposure and low relief capacity wards in MCGM. It was found that six Mumbai municipal wards namely, B, C, H/E, K/E, N and M/E have high exposure and low relief capacity. In case of extreme events these wards are expected to have high impacts. Policies can be formulated for high exposure and low relief capacity wards identified in the present study.
 
Publisher NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION-NISCAIR
 
Date 2014-10-17T06:26:01Z
2014-10-17T06:26:01Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INDIAN JOURNAL OF GEO-MARINE SCIENCES, 42(7)907-914
0379-5136
0975-1033
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/16179
 
Language en