Potential of Post-Industrial Waste Landscape in Addressing Floods in Coastal Urban Slums

Urban landscape and public space are most vulnerable to climate hazard while at the same time plays as a significant green infrastructure towards addressing climate risk and building flood resilience. The challenge put forward by the climate change, putting infrastructure to its limits, is forcing to welcome the potential of waste landscape as essential adaptation element. The objective of the paper is to showcase the case examples from developing countries like Jakarta, Bangkok, Bangladesh and India, conceiving the significance of waste landscape in creating the water strategy for flood resilience pertinent to urban slums. The analysis focused in showcasing the physical capabilities of landscape as flood risk management infrastructure and creating a framework of elements and measures derived from cases and presented in parameters of resist, delay, store and discharge. Results illustrates a new visual alphabet that displays a toolkit of measures and a lexicon of ideas for coastal urban slums. Thus the potential of waste landscape in the implementation of effective adaptation action towards urban slum flooding is identified and systematized. Citation: Anubhav Goyal. "Potential of Post-Industrial Waste Landscape in Addressing Floods in Coastal Urban Slums." Global Research and Development Journal For Engineering 6.3 (2021): 13 - 17.