Climate resilience in urban planning

Abstract

Urbanization as a process, and at its current pace, is posing new opportunities and challenges for growth and development of urban areas and regions in the country. These include acute gaps and constraints to address growing demands on infrastructure, services, housing and other facilities. Additional threats like that of climate change are aggravating these issues. It is unequivocal that climate action would impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people in urban centres. There is a need to address current risks and to begin building climate resilience into urban fabrics and systems to likely future risks. This chapter discusses one such initiative for mainstreaming urban climate resilience carried out in Gorakhpur city, India under the ACCCRN programme.