Rajshree Kamat, Aruna Saxena, Ashutosh Sharma

This paper presents a planning model for hazard prone towns based on earthquake and flood damage assessment.

Due to natural disasters like earthquake and flood the whole world suffers great losses; some towns vanish at one go and for all others it takes years and decades to resume the same state. To protect the existence of such hazard prone towns and minimize the losses it is important that planners frame some guidelines for the proper development of these towns which should be included in the master …