Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Planning: Evidence from Class III City- Rajgir, India

Disaster Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Urban Planning

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of urban planning and built environment disciplines in disaster risk reduction. Many pieces of evidence are available to illustrate that every year natural calamities cause a generous measure of harm to many cities in the entire world. Better lifestyle and employment are attracting the migrants towards emerging cities, which are predominantly vulnerable due to their peril inclination towards area like, along streams, seismic zones and many others. Dangers are particularly high in low and mid-income nations like India where a major portion of the populace in urban communities lives in ghettos and extreme weather events have tremendous effects in urban zones. This situation demands a high need in identifying how the urban planning and its related disciplines can contribute towards disaster risk reduction. Therefore this article follows disciplines of urban design and disaster management, to elaborate the concepts of disaster risk reduction at the locality level for the collective development of Rajgir, a class III city in Nalanda district of Bihar, India. The mixed methodology with multidisciplinary approach has been used to address this emerging topic, therefore this paper is based on the reviews of academic literature, journals, conference papers and reports produced by various institutions along with field analysis. Finally, this article reveals present ways to deal with hazard administration, investigating parts of disaster risk reduction, and the organizations and coordinated effort required in current procedures of urban planning the organizations and coordinated effort required in current procedures of urban planning.

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