Climate Change and Green and Blue Infrastructure

The living environment faces challenges and risks due to the consequences of globalisation. Climate change and its crisis set a complex scenario, leading us to rethink about planning solutions and how to adapt our living spaces. In order to mitigate current social and environmental challenges, cities play an essential role and have big potential to promote a different (and better) scenario. Often, denser cities are the focus of such climate adaptation, but what about smaller cities and rural areas? How does globalisation affect these places? This paper intends to build analysis from literature about the influences of globalisation on the current living environment, how public spaces in small cities could potentially be adapted to mitigate climate change challenges, and how Green and Blue Infrastructure (as a strategy and scalable method of adaptation) could help cities (local and regional level) to promote liveability for more than humans in the future. Furthermore, two different scenarios are presented and analysed in order to develop a reflection on the consequences of globalisation in Jaboticabal (Brasil) and a public space project in Horn (Austria) as examples of how public spaces in smaller cities could be adapted in order to tackle socio-ecological aspects.