Transforming Chennai: A research report on building micro, small, and medium enterprise resilience to water-related environmental change
This study analyses the interplay between urban planning and the business climate in shaping micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) resilience to the effects of December 2015 floods in Chennai, India.
This study analyses the interplay between urban planning and the business climate in shaping micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) resilience to the effects of December 2015 floods in Chennai, India. It complements and builds on other groups’ evaluations of the magnitude of economic damage from the floods by investigating the mechanisms through which rainfall became flooding, and flooding became social and economic loss.The core of this study is the primary research conducted with thirty-five MSMEs and two large corporations. The study applies a resilience framework which highlights aspects in the business and institutional environment that either amplify (worsen) or dampen (decrease) the impact of water-related hazards such as the December
2015 floods on MSMEs.