Abstract
Geopolitics play a significant role on disaster risk reduction, rehabilitation and resettlement. The international community engaged at territorial level requires governance and proactive political engagement for reducing vulnerability and building community resilience. People staying in coastal areas are more vulnerable than planes in general. In that case, the statement ‘Disasters are man-made than natural’ is less likely to be true due to differential circumstantial evidences and the higher impact on loss of property and lives. Diu is one of such district, which has faced floods, cyclones and earthquakes in past decades. The Arabian Sea surrounds the island and increases its political significance for the country but also increases vulnerability of the coastal community dependent on sea. Due to climate change, there are chances of submergence of land with more areas getting flooded. Fishing, as primary occupation of the coastal community, increases their vulnerability further. During the times of cyclone or tsunami, the loss is both in terms of human lives or livelihood. The paper tries to explore what makes coastal community more vulnerable? Is it because of climate change or international borders in sea or the occupations in which they are engaged? Out of governance initiatives of government and community associations, which one plays larger role for building resilient communities? The interactions with the community at risk through focus group discussions and personal interviews are used for understanding the increased vulnerabilities of coastal community engaged in an occupation, which involved rowing in international borders and where effect of climate change will be first realized. At the end, it imparts an understanding of the role played by technology such as usage of global positioning system (GPS) devices in reducing the vulnerabilities on one hand and strategies for improving governance for building disaster resilient communities on the other.
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The coastal stretched influenced by tidal action up to 500Â m from high tide line and land between low and high tide line are declared as CRZ (MoEF 1991).
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The primary and secondary data were collected during the exercise undertaken for preparation of Regional Plan for Diu in 2013. I am grateful to faculty (permanent and visiting) from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and officials from Town and Country Planning Organisation (TCPO), New Delhi for their valuable inputs and suggestions during discussions and students especially Deepika, Mithun, Pankaj, Suman and Poonam for their help in collation of data.
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Yadav, V. (2015). Geopolitics and Community Vulnerability: A Case of Diu Island. In: Ha, H. (eds) Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1976-7_9
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