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Indore City Resilience Strategy
The 20 th century has been a period of greatest warming in at least a thousand years. The IPCC Working Group found evidence that recent regional climate changes
have already affected many physical, biological and in human systems. Water, energy and material consumptions has increased due to population increase & rapid
urbanization. This has significantly altered Land Use & Land Cover (LULC). Apart from natural changes in climate, drivers such as urbanization and pollution
influence climate systems directly and indirectly. Ability to manage climate risks and other hazard risks depends on a number of critical factors including city’s
baseline infrastructure. Several attempts are underway to minimize the effects of climate change on priority sectors and vulnerable section of the society through
building adaptation mechanisms.
Indore is the most prominent city within the state of Madhya Pradesh. The issue of climate change is cross-cutting, it has a potential to affect a numbers of sectors
augmenting the growth of the city. Risk and vulnerability assessment was conducted for the city in consultation with Indore City Advisory Committee (CAC), Indore
Municipal Corporation (IMC), academic institutions, private sectors and community. Sector studies were undertaken to determine the degree to which existing
systems can adjust in response to, or in anticipation of, changed climatic conditions. The assessment results supported in framing an integrated resilience approach
for the city of Indore to deal with climate variability and climate change.
City Resilience Strategy (CRS) for Indore has been informed on the basis of the assessment studies & aims to reduce the impacts of climate change by identifying
sectors, communities most vulnerable to the climate variability & climate change risks and by suggesting resilience measures.
The aim of City Resilience Strategy (CRS) Document
This document is prepared with the aim of providing a framework for development of climate resilience strategy for the city of Indore. It has been developed based
on interaction with city stakeholders, sector studies conducted to understand different dimensions of current situation, information from secondary literature, and
through conduct of risk to resilience workshop.
CRS, is aimed at city managers and people at large. This document is based on the current situation and has a scope for updation to reflect emerging trends over time.
The resilience strategies will therefore evolve over time with better understanding of climate change phenomena as well as emerging city level issues.
There are four sections in this document:
1. Variability & Change : Dynamic factors that would affect the city
2. Possible Impacts: Understood based on the infrastructure of the city
3. Evaluation & Assessment: Determines the Capacities, Vulnerabilities & Constrains of the city towards the better CRS
4. Prioritized Strategies: To reduce the impacts of the climate change on the city
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