Evaluation of Resilience of urban green spaces in water sensitive cities (Case study: Mashhad metropolis)

The water crisis in recent decades has caused much concern around the world. The future of water is uncertain, with four million people facing severe water shortages in one month a year. The resilient approach is relatively new and effective and can best establish the right relationship between humans and the environment that is resilient to a variety of challenges and at the same time flexible. Water resource resilience management, while ensuring citizens' access to safe water, ensures that the system can return to its original state, provide services and pre-crisis performance in the face of any crisis or challenge. Among these, one of the uses that have significant water consumption is green and public spaces. The present study intends to examine the statistics of resilience in green and open spaces of Mashhad and how water consumption patterns in these spaces determine the extent to which these patterns correspond to the resilience indicators by examining the statistics, numbers, and figures in the above documents. Whether there is a need to improve them or not, and finally, by examining and recognizing the existing potentials, to provide solutions appropriate to them. This research has been done by descriptive-analytical research method to analyze quantitative and qualitative information obtained by SWOT method to provide solutions to increase the resilience of water resources, although this crisis and challenge in watersensitive countries that have limited water resources and the population quickly is increasing and requires more attention and planning.

Keywords:

Resilience , Water Resilience , Gray Water , Ecological Potential , Urban Green Spaces , Lack of Water Resources