Flood Risk Management in Mumbai, India: Insufficient Resilience to Flood and the Approaches to Improve It
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Flood; Resilience; City; Mumbai; Slum.Abstract
To be resilient to flood is critical for cities in the world to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11. This article sets Mumbai as object, summarizing the problems, reasons and solutions to improve flood risk management in Mumbai, especially in slum areas.
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