Residents’ perceptions of the role of urban green spaces to climate resilience in the city of Niamey, Niger
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The city of Niamey like other African big cities is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The urban green spaces considered as nature-based solution are increasingly threatened by the urbanization phenomenon. However, there is a lack of data on the role of urban green spaces in boosting the climate resilience of cities mostly at West Africa level. Therefore, this study attempts to close this gap by investigating the contribution of urban green spaces to the climate resilience in the city of Niamey. To do so, we interviewed randomly 385 respondents for collecting socio-economic and environmental data. In addition, climate resilience index was estimated via principal component analysis to capture the perceptions of respondents’ resilience to climate shocks. The results from the econometric model showed that urban green spaces through their services influence positively the climate resilience at 1% level. Therefore, the respondents who are near to the urban green spaces are more likely to be climate resilient. Furthermore, the respondents that perceived the regulating (17.44%) and cultural services (66.92%) tend to be significantly more resilient to climate change than those who perceived provisioning services (15.64%) at 1% level. In light of these results, the public authorities should promote projects that aim to scale up the urban green spaces across the city to make them more accessible to dwellers.
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