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and lack of consensus. The following approach has been used to build leadership about resilience building
by the local and state stakeholders:
• Building on addressing current risks and vulnerabilities with CC context
• Create awareness about climate risks and generate demand: Bottom up approach
• Demonstrate resilience projects to generate interest among the ULBs and other decision makers
• Generate Multi-Sectoral Information Shelf of Project Proposals
• Building synergy with state and national institutions It has to be noted that the local stakeholders
linked the climate change with water scarcity, changing precipitation pattern as well as increasing
temperatures during summer evenings. Series of “Risk to Resilience” and scenario building workshops helped
in their raising awareness about a variety of issues like migration, possible resource scarcities and urban
health. These workshops built consensus over the linkages between urban growth, poverty and climate
change. These exercises traced the recent history of Indore and changes being felt by the citizens and
possible impacts of such changes continuing along with rapid urbanisation and migration.
These workshops led to identiication of interventions to address the issues raised from analysis of secondary
data ranging from climatic, demographic and economic model outputs, local knowledge of stakeholders and
facilitation by us. The main sets of interventions across the sectors are presented in the following tables.
scenario sectors
Current status future trends bau
without CC CC issues
teChNoloGy
Fast up gradation to overcome labour
scarcity Shift to more eficient water
and energy technologies, especially by those who can
afford. Water reuse technologies can alleviate
scarcity. Eficient lighting, mass rapid transport can reduce energy use and
pollution impacts
soCial equity
Iniquitous growth being addressed
by improving Service access to
poor, sustainability issues exist
Gated communities and slums coexist. Poverty
may increase due to push migration from large
underdeveloped drought prone hinterlands with skill
poor population Push migration can lead to conlicts and
distress
With near doubling of population, impacts of urbanisation would be much higher than climate
change impacts in case of Indore. Extreme precipitation patterns are likely to catalyse large
scale push migration from complex diverse risk prone environments with large pool of skill poor labour in to
Indore and neighboring cities, which have high costs of water and other basic needs. Poverty is likely to grow,
unless conscious efforts are done in skill building of the push migrants and providing opportunities to for them
to be absorbed in to the formal economy.