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Volume : III, Issue : VIII, September - 2013 Living Conditions And Housing Environment In Slum Dwellers: A Case Study Of Bilaspur City ( Chhattisgarh) Narendranath Guria And Manju Pandey DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Increased frequency and severity of natural disasters by climate change over the past recent years are not only displacing people physically but also exposing to enhanced poverty by threatening their livelihoods temporarily and permanently of Bilaspur city. Growing number of people rush to city's slums creates urban crisis in Bilaspur city. Climate change threatens peoples' access to food as they become socioeconomically susceptible. Displaced people living in urban slums are in search of better and secure life. But urban slums located mostly in low lying environmentally hazardous area coupled with inadequate facilities like food, shelter, sanitation, health care make their life even worse. Socio-economic factors characterizing living conditions, physical environment (mode of waste disposal), households' health behavior particularly dietary practice and health outcome (disease occurrence) have been analyzed by applying statistical technique, frequency distribution. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Narendranath Guria And Manju Pandey , (2013). Living Conditions And Housing Environment In Slum Dwellers: A Case Study Of Bilaspur City ( Chhattisgarh). Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VIII, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3094.pdf References : - Asthana Sheena, (1994) Integrated Slum improvement in India: Problems and Prospects in Habitat International, Volume 18, No. 1, pg 57-77
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