ABSTRACT
Hydro-meteorological hazards in the recent years extensively impacted the Asian region, especially in the urban context. The present research is focused to analyze the factors which affected the city of Chennai in the east coast of India in the context of 2015 flood. In 2015, floods extensively impacted the cities of Puducherry and Chennai, about 500 died and 1.8 million people were displaced (Raha & Ashirbad, 2015). With an estimated damage and losses ranging from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 100,000 crores (US$ 7–15 billion) (Kotteswaran, 2015; Narasimhan, 2015), 2015 Chennai floods were the costliest natural disasters of the year.
The interconnected systems are very much influencing the city level flood risk governance. The study explains the efficacy of traditional and integrated flood management and their incorporation into theoretical configuration as well as analyzes multi-level governance framework in the city resilience context. Understanding the knowledge construction processes and potential interconnection in Chennai’s flood management has also been explained with the potential recommendations for integrated flood risk governance.
