Spatial Dynamics of Vendors’ Space-Sharing Under the Influence of Natural Calamities in the Coastal area of Puducherry Municipality

Author: Laylee Chakraborty & Priyabrata Sau

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/04030049

Abstract: Vendor survey was conducted in some selected wards (no.4,12,20,39) of Puducherry municipality on the basis of 100 respondent vendors surveyed in Puducherry, this study was conducted to gather information that how space is shared among the local vendors in the concerned area. All the figures are drawn from the primary survey, 2024. Here we are dealing with age-sex composition, qualification status, groups of educational qualification, number of earning members in the family, monthly income in the family, family income structure, types of stall, stall condition, stall occupied area, financial support is provided or not to them, duration of living in this area, time of using the beach, type of affecting hazard, loss of assets of respondent vendors during hazard, types of effects in stall during hazards, process of handling general hazards in Puducherry, process of handling extreme hazards in Puducherry, precautionary measures taken by the respondent vendors, kind of alert during hazards, problems faced by respondent vendors, perception study of the respondent vendors.

Keywords: Spatial Dynamics, Vendors, Space-Sharing, Natural Calamities, Coastal Area, Puducherry Municipality.

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