Climate change is a globally widespread phenomenon. Urban development and climate change are closely interrelated; cities are exposed to the risk of climate change and as a result, are very vulnerable. In recent years, to face the challenges caused by the climate change, the concepts of, urban ecological resilience, specifically, climate resilience have been introduced. Climate resilience, is a type of urban ecological resilience, which is defined as the urban resilience to climate change. Urban green infrastructure has an established role as one of the strategies for adapting to climate change and for developing and promoting climate resilience in cities. Given the theoretical gap existing in this field, this question arises: How and based on which features of the green infrastructure can we assess and analyze climate resilience in a city? To answer this question, the landscape ecology principles and relationship between them and green infrastructure in cities were studied. The relationship was developed in the Yousef Abad neighborhood of Tehran and was qualitatively tested using the aerial images, field surveys and preparation of basic and analytical GIS maps. Finally, the `effective qualities in assessing the climate resilience in cities using the urban green infrastructures based on landscape ecology' were obtained.
Shirgir, E; Kheyroddin, R; Behzadfar, M
DEFINING URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ROLE IN ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN CITIES BASED ON LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY PRINCIPLES
Tema-Journal Of Land Use Mobility And Environment