Managing City-Scale Slow-Onset Disasters: Learning From Cape Town's 2015-2018 Drought Disaster Planning

Disaster planning for city-wide shocks became extremely neccessary specifically as cities face severe climatic problems. The paper provides a distinctive perception to the disaster planning and management which has taken in the Cape Town city as its most acute drought that ever happened in the town’s history. It mainly describes how risk was managed and understood by the government, which included the risk prioritizing and mitigation, design of points and location of distribution of water rations for the people. This paper also includes the individuals experiences and communicate with the officials for management planning