Published in March 2015

Keywords: Ambient heat, mortality, temperature,
humidity, urban population.

Keywords: Heat Index, humidity, mortality, spatial variability, Surat, temperature

Keywords: Urbanization, Urban Health, Climate Change, Disease Surveillance, Surat

Keywords: Climate, Humidity, Heat Index, Heat Wave, Surat

Lessons Learnt from Surat city Experience

Published by Anuj Ghanekar.

Climate change vulnerability assessment can be carried out with Macro level and micro level.
Macro level approaches are demographic and make use of large scale existing data within
Government systems, E.g., Census in Indian context. On the other hand, micro level approaches are
taxonomic and carried out regionally with cross sectional primary assessments. Often researchers
make use of combination of both approaches for building substantial evidence. In this context,
census data can be used for urban vulnerability profiling and understanding the scope of further
micro-level studies to be carried out locally. The current study represents how macro-level
vulnerability assessment using census data can provide backbone for micro-level studies.

Climate change and health hazards can be tackled by developing potential of adolescents from
urban slums. The paper describes profile of adolescents in slums of flood vulnerable Surat city along with their climate change inclusive health perspective.

“Adolescents’ responsive Health Resilience System” was an implementation research (2018-19) by Surat Municipal Corporation & UNICEF in Surat. Implementation partner was Urban Health
and Climate Resilience Center of Excellence. The objective of present research was to
demonstrate a feasible model of Adolescents Responsive Health system specific to urban slum context, at pilot level.

In response to Climate and health vulnerability of Surat city in India, Local Self Government
(LSG) established Urban Health and Climate Resilience Cent

(1) To know the problems faced by people during monsoon. 2) To know how they cop up with it
2) To know the participants view related to monsoon

Planning for climate change resilience is one of the most complex challenges that cities face at present.
Creation of functional multi-stakeholder collaborations is a critical component in a city’s resilience
effort. The disaster-prone city of Surat has developed effective working collaborations in the area
of public health post the 1994 flood and the subsequent plague outbreak. We studied the
institutionalised multi-stakeholder collaboration “Surat Climate Change Trust (SCCT)” and other
collaborative efforts

Publication by UHCRCE