TY - BOOK AU - Sawant, Priyanka AU - Bhakuni, Nitika (Guide) TI - Vulnerability assessment of the spatial network in urban floods case of Mumbai (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-2161 PY - 2017/// N1 - CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 19 1.1 Understanding Floods 20 1.2 Why are urban floods distinct? 20 1.3 Urban flood cases in India 21 1.3.1 Overview 21 1.3.2 Case of Mumbai 22 2 RESEARCH DESIGN 23 2.1 Significance of the study . 24 2.2 Research Problem 24 2.3 Research objective . 24 2.4 Research questions 24 2.5 Scope and limitations . 24 3 LITERATURE REVIEW . 25 3.1 Background- Approaches in mitigating floods 26 3.2 Risk assessment 26 3.2.1 Hazard Analysis 27 3.2.2 Exposure Analysis 27 3.3 Vulnerability Assessment 27 3.3.1 Defining vulnerability 27 3.3.2 Types of Vulnerability 27 3.3.3 Theories in vulnerability assessment 28 3.4 Spatial network vulnerability . 28 3.5 Mobility and vulnerability assessment 29 3.5.1 Overview . 29 3.5.2 Methods in transportation network vulnerability assessment 29 3.5.3 Case studies of indicator based assessment . 30 3.6 Summary 31 4 FRAMEWORK FOR VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT 34 4.1 Conceptual framework . 35 4.2 Aim and Methodology 37 4.3 Determinants of the study 38 4.3.1 Physical determinants 38 4.3.2 Social Determinants . 39 4.3.3 Adaptive capacity Determinants . 39 4.4 Summary 39 5 SITE SELECTION 41 5.1 Introduction to Mumbai city 42 5.2 Administrative boundaries of Mumbai 42 5.3 Floods and Mumbai 43 5.4 Site selection rationale 45 5.5 Transportation and Landmarks in the shortlisted study area 47 5.6 Demography 48 5.7 Flooding spot in the study area 48 6 DATA COLLECTION AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS 51 6.1 Data collection Matrix 52 6.2 Data collection framework used for analysis 52 6.3 Pilot and Primary surveys 52 6.4 Expert Perception surveys 53 6.5 Mapping 54 7 DATA ANALYSIS- Physical Determinants 58 7.1 Expert perception surveys 59 7.2 Results from the spatial analysis . 61 8 DATA ANALYSIS- SOCIAL AND ADAPTIVE DETERMINANTS 64 8.1 Socio-Economic characteristics 65 8.2 Flood experiences 66 8.3 Travel characteristics and losses . 67 8.4 Adaptive characteristics . 71 9 CONCLUSION . 72 9.3 Overall vulnerability 73 9.4 Summary 74 10 RECOMMENDATIONS 75 10.1 Major findings and recommendations . 76 10.2 Way forward 81 11 ANNEXURES 82 11.1 Types of floods and causes 83 11.2 Impacts of urban floods . 84 11.3 Types of vulnerabilities . 85 11.4 Indicators used by the cities for vulnerability assessment in an Indicator based approach (for the case studies) . 86 11.5 Indicator list for the research of spatial network vulnerability assessment 89 11.6 Primary survey questions 91 11.7 Expert perception survey questions . 94 11.8 Number of economic activities vulnerable road wise . 96 12 Works citied 100 ER -