CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES a LIST OF TABLES b EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i-iv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction: understanding resilience 2 1.2 Climate change and resilience 3 CHAPTER 2: URBAN RESILIENCE 2.1 Defining resilience and urban resilience 9 2.2 Why do we need to make urban systems resilient? 11 2.3 How do we make urban systems resilient? 13 2.4 Urban resilience in context of urban floods 16 2.5 Why urban floods need to be understood? 19 2.6 Resilience and planning for urban flooding 20 2.7 Challenges 21 CHAPTER 3: CASE ANALYSIS; INTRODUCTION 3.1 Research question 23 3.2 Significance of Study 23 3.3 Aim 24 3.4 Objective 24 3.5 Methodology 24 3.6 Framework 26 3.7 Scope and limitation 26 3.8 Site Study 28 CHAPTER 4: CASE ANALYSIS; IMPACT STUDY 4.1 Background of floods 32 4.2 Impact study 32 4.3 Primary data Study 33 4 .4 Direct impact on economy 34 4.5 Impact on health 36 4.6 Impact on infrastructure 37 4.7 Coping Strategy 38 4.8 Insights 40 CHAPTER 5: RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK 5.1 Making a city resilient 43 5.2 Resilience and SDGs 45 5.3 Resilient Cities: 100 Resilient City Study 46 5.4 Governance framework 50 5.5 Resilience Framework: Gurugram 52 REFERENCES 57 APPENDIX 59