Exploring sustainable risk mitigation strategies for low-income households: the case of Mumbai

Abstract

Exploring sustainable risk reduction strategies for the low-income households in Mumbai since the delayed judicial orders on resettlement for decades have been causing a degradation of the existing locality and surroundings, hampering the city's image and environment, and lowering the experience of the everyday commuters and citizens. Spillover of these settlements in the neighbouring land, infrastructure, and natural features, making them more vulnerable to risk that can have adverse effects on society, the economy, and the environment. Understanding the social fabric, existing habitat, and built environments; post-project implications for the inhabitants; and taking into consideration the pre- and post-scenario of the intervention on their lifestyle, analysing the existing government policies for the low-income households and deriving fruitful interventions out of it to collaborate with multiple stakeholders like NGOs, private bodies, and government-provided efforts towards slum redevelopment projects, poverty alleviation programs, and urban aestheticization. Keywords: India, Urban planning, urban area, health services, accessibility, sanitation, public transport, spatial analysis, poverty, health disparity, risk factors, policy, population