Chapter 7 Community-Based Risk Reduction Approaches in Urban India

Disasters being common in Indian cities, communities have created and utilized their own coping mechanism to deal with such situations and strengthen their resilience by adopting methods to adjust to the risk situation. For example, during the Mumbai Floods in 2005, slum communities, with the support of social organizations, were able to adopt ways to cope well with the risk situation (Chatterjee, 2010). This chapter particularly focuses on community-based approaches in urban India.