A Systematic Literature Review Of Blue And Green Spaces Strategy For Climate Change Adaptation In Urban Residential Areas

Abstract

Blue-green spaces (BGS) comprise the natural and manmade schemes employed to alleviate the consequential impacts of climate change in urban residential areas, which include flooding, Urban Heat Islands (UHI), Higher Air Temperature (HAT), and global warming. Despite the global emerging trend of climate change variability, the adaptation of BGS to mitigate its devastating effects on urban residential areas has not been adequately addressed in the available literature. Therefore, the deficiency of empirical evidence on blue and green spaces for climate change adaptation in urban residential areas instigated this study. The preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) procedure was used to examine the adaptation of blue and green spaces for climate change mitigation in urban residential areas. Eighty-four articles extracted from current relevant data on the concepts of climate change, BGS, UHI and global warming over 10 years (2014 to 2023) were sourced from Scopus, Web of Science, SCImago, and Google Scholar databases for this study. Discoveries reveal that BGS adequately manages urban stormwater, and moderates urban heat and global warming. Advanced studies should focus on the influence of blue, green and grey spaces on climate change variability.