Developing climate change resilient cities in India
Student name: Mr Sagarmoy Phukan
Guide: Dr Kamna Sachdeva
Year of completion: 2018
Host Organisation: All India Institute of Local Self Government, New Delhi
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Kamlesh Kumar Pathak
Abstract: Urban Climate Change Resilience is an emerging concept which have gained popularity in face of Climate Change. The study focuses in developing Climate Change Resilient Cities in India. A number of resilience framework has been developed by various organizations and institutions for their countries. With the growing variability in the climate and as a developing country where resources are skewedly distributed among the population, it has become important to create a resilience framework for the urban centres of the country. Urban centres are the key junction for a developing country upholding economy, finance and working population. With the Government of India launching the Smart Cities Mission, huge amount of investments has been provided to the urban centres. The study has tried to determine the resilience capacity of the Smart Cities Mission with respect to Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda and also develop a framework to enable local policymakers and Urban Local Bodies to provide efficient resilience system within the Smart Cities Mission. The framework has been developed with the help multivariate analysis using CATPCA for identification of indicators collected from various individuals. The results have indicated the need to develop good governance, ICT, investments and high environment quality standards to provide a robust resilience system to the urban centres of the country.
Keywords: Resilience, Urban Climate Change Resilience, Categorical Principal Component Analysis, Non-Linear Principal Component Analysis, Smart Cities Mission, Urban Resilience.
