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Sustainable Urban Development > Overview
Centre of Excellence (CoE) for
Urban Development on 'Climate Change Vulnerability
and Adaptation'
IRADe
is a Centre of Excellence on Urban development and
Climate Change, and carries out projects in the areas
of Urban Environment and Development and Climate Change. Besides IRADe,
MoUD identified
few other reputed institutes from all over India to undertake research and other activities
in the areas related to urban development. IRADe's
approach as the Centre of Excellence is broadly based on
three focus areas: Research, Knowledge Dissemination
and Capacity Building. The research programmes of IRADe includes
policy analysis, case studies and dissemination and
assists MoUD with activities related to the National mission
for Sustainable Habitat (NMSH). The staff participates
in the meetings of subcommittees on storm water drainage
for developing benchmarks for preparedness for disasters.
IRADe-CoE
has worked on the following important topics:
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Methodology
development
A generic
framework for climate change and vulnerability was
developed in 2009, which depicted that some cities find some
sectors more important than others. It is important
to carry out several case studies of various typology
e.g., metropolitan, medium class I & class II cities
or coastal cities, drought prone cities in arid zones
and flood- prone cities in the river basins. This gave perspectives on how the process can be streamlined
and replicated faster each time than the previous
exercise. Moreover, data may not be available regarding
all the sectors and they may have to be selective.
Some default database, norms and rules of thumb can
emerge only when several case studies are completed.
- Rapid Assessment
of 14 cities
This
research study has reviewed the literature available
on climate change and urbanization, assessment of
vulnerabilities of cities to formulate an index for
assessing the vulnerability. Analysis and findings
of the research study are based on the interpretations
of a set of variables that consist of climate, topography,
temperature, rainfall, demographic & socio economic
facets, urban design & infrastructure, transport,
energy use and governance of 14 selected cities of
India. To assess the vulnerability of these selected
cities, IRADe has developed its methodological framework
that includes baseline data pertaining to urban development
socio-economic aspects and infrastructure
Asian
Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
The Asian
Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) aims
to draw attention to invite funding and action on
building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable
people by creating robust models and methodologies
to address risk through active engagement and analysis
of various cities. IRADe is a part of the network
that consists of well known institutions such as TERI,
TARU, etc.
A policy
paper was prepared on Mainstreaming climate change
resilience in urban policy framework: Linkages with
policies, programs and missions to mainstream climate
concerns at national level. The paper deals with the National
Urban Sanitation Policy, National Urban Transport
Policy and Disaster Management policies with its adaptation
and mainstreaming measures. One of the prominent examples,
where the city has accepted to live with floods concept,
this being significant, similar initiatives have also
been taken in Gorakhpur and Indore cities by the ACCCRN.
The vulnerability assessment and resilience planning
approach evolved by the ACCCRN programme can be adopted
by other cities to deal with climate uncertainty.
The assessment mainly identifies current vulnerabilities
and capacities. Vulnerability analysis through indices
in a GIS platform opens up avenues for spatial analysis. |
