November 15, 2022
With the increased risk and uncertainty brought about by climate-induced floods and cascading disasters, it is essential to empower bottom-up informational networks and community actors as equal partners in scenario planning for future flood events. The bi-directional communication and real-time collaboration tools, such as RiskMap, can help facilitate a wide range of response activities such as community-led evacuation, emergency shelter registration, resource and supply sharing, and navigation for residents.
Based on RiskMap’s pilot in the city of Chennai, India, this invited book chapter outlines the lessons for the role collective civic voluntarism can play during flood events.