Chapter 26
* Printed with permission from Aromar Revi, ‘Lessons from the Deluge: Priorities for Multi-Hazard Risk Mitigation’, Economic and Political Weekly, September 3–10, 2005.
1. Author's explanation. The original text refers to flooding points.
2. Multiple web reports and blogs. As an example see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Mumbai_floods.
3. Following the Latur (1993) earthquake and the $ 221 million World Bank funded Maharashtra Emergency Earthquake Reconstruction Programme (MEERP), the government of Maharashtra took a number of positive steps to institutionalise disaster management and mitigation in the state, including the preparation of a State Disaster Management Plan (DMP) and a Mumbai Disaster Management Plan with subsidiary ...
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