Vulnerability Aspects of Urban Flooding: A Review

The paper attempts to summarise different works on vulnerability aspects (physical and social) of urban flooding carried out by earlier researchers. Like any hazard, flood vulnerability too is determined by the exposure, sensitivity and coping capacities by affected agents. The nexus between economic development and urban flooding is an essential component of vulnerability. The literature revealed that as economic development occurs, unplanned urbanization in absence of adequate institutional mechanism was detrimental to frequent occurrences of floods in urban centres. The causal factors, impacts, methodological aspects are integrated which will provide a basis for designing flood management.