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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, Abhijat Arun
Paliwal, Mukta
Patwardhan, Anand
Inamdar, Arun B.
 
Subject Municipal Corporation
Exposure
Relief capacity
Hierarchical Cluster
Socio-economic indicators
 
Description 907-914
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.
 
Date 2013-12-13T12:50:48Z
2013-12-13T12:50:48Z
2013-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/24816
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.42(7) [November 2013]