Perceptions and Preferences for Green Infrastructure by Urban Residents Facing Climate Change Effects
Green infrastructure is increasingly acknowledged as a way of tackling the challenges posed by climate change. However, studies analyzing the urban inhabitants’ attitudes toward green infrastructure when having to deal with climate change effects are still scarce. Using as case studies two Portuguese cities with different sizes (small vs medium-sized) and socio-cultural and geographic contexts (hinterland vs coastal), the study uncovers the determinants of inhabitants’ awareness of extreme climatic conditions, the time they spend in green infrastructures, the sensations they associate to green infrastructures, the elements they value there and the most preferred scale to have green infrastructures. The estimated logit models show that for the majority of the estimated models the determinants in each city were different. This finding highlights the need to consider the specificities of each city when green infrastructures are chosen, thus providing insights for other southern European countries facing the same extreme climatic events
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2022
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Authors: | Barreira, Ana Paula ; Andraz, Jorge M. ; Ferreira, Vera ; Panagopoulos, Thomas |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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