Review of the Tools and Techniques Used in Risk Based Land Use Planning: An Innovative Participatory/GIS based Approach for Mauritius
Keywords:
Risk based land use planning, land use planning, risk management, MauritiusAbstract
Land use planning can now be considered as one of the best practices within natural Disaster Risk Management to improve the resilience of communities, ensure the safety of people and increase sustainability. Yet traditional land use planning and management practices lack the systematic nature to deal with risks associated with hazards, exposure and vulnerability. Risk based land use planning provides planners and managers the opportunity to move beyond planning for the likelihood of a natural hazard and to plan for the consequences of an event. The aim of this study was to review the tools and techniques that are used in risk based land use planning and eventually select a suitable one for the present case study, Mauritius. Google scholar was used as portal and keywords such as “risk based land use planning” were entered to extract relevant publications for the period 2010 to 2020. Over 90 papers were reviewed and 15 tools and techniques were identified as being in use in risk based land use planning. Consequently, an innovative 7-steps participatory/GIS based approach for risk reduction in the Mauritian context was proposed which considers communities’ participation in mapping land uses and disasters and translating the information onto GIS maps for visualization.
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