Gayathri V V

UH4051

Indian cities are becoming increasingly sensitive to climate change in terms of heat stress, cold, and urban floods. Because of its orientation, size, structure, and functionality, as well as heat trapping materials such as tin sheets, cement, tarpaulins, and similar materials, the urban poor living in incremental housing are especially vulnerable to intense heat stress. The need for alternate cooling systems which further exuberate the effects of global warming by overburdened demand. The research explores the scope of resilience and resilient practises among urban poor households living in slum settlements towards the extreme conditions of heat waves through a directed research project based in Ahmedabad