Khajuria, AbhinandanDr. Ashna Singh, - Supervisor2023-10-132023-10-132023-10-13https://dans.nls.ac.in/handle/123456789/1248Climate change as a phenomenon is gaining importance throughout the world. Its impact can be felt as erratic climatic patterns have led to floods, draught, increasing temperature, pollution etc. When discussing climate change in the developing world, work has been done on the effect that climate change has on physical and social infrastructure of vulnerable communities. The poorer populations are the ones that are mostly impacted by the ill effects of adverse climatic events as they are least prepared to deal with such a situation due to the lack of social, economic, and political capital. In India, urbanisation has picked up pace with 35.7% of the population living in urban areas. The rapid urban expansion in India is leading to resource constraint and the provisioning of public services becomes a challenge. This problem is compounded by the element of informality associated with poor urban dwellings. Informal and unplanned colony clusters are set up within the cities from migration due to economic opportunities. The governance mechanisms restrict the urban slum communities from accessing basic amenities and they must rely on temporary arrangements and intermediaries to avail facilities like electricity and water. Adverse climatic events like heat waves and floods compound the problem of service quality, quantity, and opportunity of access to service is also compromised. This has a direct impact on the livelihood, health, education, and other social indicators that decide the quality of life of the affected population. The study tries to gather some insights on the question of services access to the slum communities within the complex of physical social vulnerability when viewed from the angle of climate change. For this study, the climate change policies of the Delhi government and whether they inculcate an angle of climate change within is also critically analysed. Keywords- Climate change, Urban poor, climate resilience, vulnerability, heatwaves, floods, water electricity, services, climate risk, livelihood, healthenClimate Change; Urban Poor; Climate Resilience; Water ElectricityBook