Development strategies for flood prone areas, case study: Patna, India

Abstract

While natural disasters cannot be prevented, measures need to be taken to reduce the extent of damage, especially in a vast country like India with a huge population base and scarce facilities. Proper physical planning is an important tool, which one should utilize to regulate urban development as per the extent of damage anticipated. The article is a brief account of a study done on the city of Patna, in Bihar, a flood‐affected city of India, where strategies were developed to link the process of urban planning to the risk and damage of flooding in the area.

Citation

Sharma, V.K. and Priya, T. (2001), "Development strategies for flood prone areas, case study: Patna, India", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/09653560110388852