Urban landscape and flood vulnerabilities through the voices of people in middle ganga plains of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Envisioning the floods is a most important phenomenon in measuring its vulnerability especially in the context of Urban Localities. Urban flooding is most dense and crucial in all around the world, especially in context to Asian Countries. Monsoonal climatic condition is already a threat for poorly managed infrastructure, sewage system, overcrowded housing pattern are major role players in the urban cities. Increasing impact of global warming tends to give heavy spell of water within short period that’s why major cities are not able to manage its full potential to save the losses happen through floods. Major objective is in this paper to analysis of changes in land use pattern from 2000 to 2020 (Landsat data) for Allahabad district and followed by the primary Survey conducted to see the major problems and vulnerabilities faced by people. Allahabad is an urban city in Uttar Pradesh state in India. This paper will help to understand the problems with insights to the solutions with the people responses. Why it is important to look the locale knowledge or community response in the flood risk or vulnerability eradication is main focus of this paper.

Floods are disastrous when they are not manageable because we can’t stop the flooding and any natural Disaster but we can definitely reduce the threat by managing it before hand and preparing it with more proactive and technical way with community Particiaption.This studies carried out on the field and hence it is also observed that the plans which we prepare at national, state, district and other lower level we need to look the percentage of locale people participation more and major problem face by local people there and because there can never be a universal method for flood management there is always a scope of that local level input that already discussed in the paper.

Key words: flood disaster ,vulnerability community participation,Socio economic resilience