TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing community resilience to climate-related disasters in Chennai, India
AU - Joerin, Jonas
AU - Shaw, Rajib
AU - Takeuchi, Yukiko
AU - Krishnamurthy, Ramasamy
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Global Centre of Excellence (GCOE) Human Security Engineering (HSE) Program for their financial support for this study. The authors would also like to thank Mr. Mathavan from the local municipality (Corporation of Chennai) for his kind support in providing data and information to this article.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This article compares the resilience of two communities in Chennai, India, to climate-related disasters. The selected communities have similar exposure to natural hazards (cyclones and river-based floods due to their close proximity to the sea. Both areas are predominantly residential. Results from a household survey, assessing the physical, social and economic resilience of individuals through a Climate-related Disaster Community Resilience Framework (CDCRF), reveal that people living in the vicinity of rivers and canals are at higher risk from impacts (damages on house, diseases) of floods compared to others. However, despite their experience to past flood-related disasters, they have not been able to enhance their coping capacity due to their limited adaptive capacity. Thus, their resilience is limited to absorb, manage and bounce back future climate-related disasters (particularly floods). In collaboration with other stakeholders, mainly the Corporation of Chennai (Municipality), community-driven participatory solutions are concluded to have beneficial effect in enhancing the resilience of communities to climate-related disasters.
AB - This article compares the resilience of two communities in Chennai, India, to climate-related disasters. The selected communities have similar exposure to natural hazards (cyclones and river-based floods due to their close proximity to the sea. Both areas are predominantly residential. Results from a household survey, assessing the physical, social and economic resilience of individuals through a Climate-related Disaster Community Resilience Framework (CDCRF), reveal that people living in the vicinity of rivers and canals are at higher risk from impacts (damages on house, diseases) of floods compared to others. However, despite their experience to past flood-related disasters, they have not been able to enhance their coping capacity due to their limited adaptive capacity. Thus, their resilience is limited to absorb, manage and bounce back future climate-related disasters (particularly floods). In collaboration with other stakeholders, mainly the Corporation of Chennai (Municipality), community-driven participatory solutions are concluded to have beneficial effect in enhancing the resilience of communities to climate-related disasters.
KW - Chennai
KW - Climate-related disasters
KW - Community resilience
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2012.05.006
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2012.05.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872861410
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 1
SP - 44
EP - 54
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
IS - 1
ER -
