Urban green infrastructure: A review on valuation toolkits from an urban planning perspective

W Van Oijstaeijen, S Van Passel, J Cools - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
As a response to increasing urbanization and changing weather and climatic patterns, urban
green infrastructure (UGI) emerged as a concept to increase resilience within the urban …

Nature-based solutions for carbon sequestration in urban environments

P Pereira, F Wang, M Inacio, M Kalinauskas… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cities are among the areas that emit more carbon to the atmosphere and contribute to
climate change. It is urgent to mitigate their impact. Nature-based solutions (NBS), terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-based solutions as climate change adaptation measures for rail infrastructure

L Blackwood, FG Renaud, S Gillespie - Nature-Based Solutions, 2022 - Elsevier
The transport sector fulfils crucial economic and social functions with railways being
instrumental in the safe, efficient, and reliable movements of people to their destinations and …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers and tools for implementing Nature-based solutions for rail climate change adaptation

L Blackwood, FG Renaud - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, the need for railways to adapt to the impacts of climate change is increasing
rapidly. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been identified as potential climate change …

Investigation on the carbon sequestration capacity of vegetation along a heavy traffic load expressway

D Fu, B Bu, J Wu, RP Singh - Journal of Environmental Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon sequestration by vegetation plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. More
emphasis on the carbon sequestration of roadside vegetation will help to reduce the total …

The ecological value of typical agricultural products: an emergy-based life-cycle assessment framework

Y Wang, G Liu, Y Cai, BF Giannetti… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agri-products have an impact on food security, ecology protection, and crucial strategic
deployment. With this respect, the economic value of agri-products should be paralleled with …

Characterization of Urban Greening in a District of Lecce (Southern Italy) for the Analysis of CO2 Storage and Air Pollutant Dispersion

R Buccolieri, E Gatto, M Manisco, F Ippolito… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper is devoted to the assessment of urban greening effects on two important
ecosystem services, ie, air quality and CO2 storage, including the corresponding economic …

Unveiling drivers of sustainability in Chinese transport: an approach based on principal component analysis and neural networks

PF Wanke, AK Yazdi, T Hanne… - … planning and technology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The paper analyzes the sustainability of the Chinese transportation sector by examining the
relationship between energy consumption (and CO2 emissions), transportation modes, and …

Evaluating the sensitivity of the i-Tree Eco pollution model to different pollution data inputs: A case study from Warsaw, Poland

Z Szkop - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban trees provide a range of ecosystem services, including air purification. This specific
ecosystem service can be quantified using i-Tree Eco software, but the software has some …

Comparative Analysis of Carbon Emissions from Filled Embankment and Excavated Graben Schemes of Railway Subgrade Engineering.

Z Shen, X Bao, Z Li, X Lv - Sustainability (2071-1050), 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
To quantitatively compare the carbon emissions between the filled embankment scheme
and the excavated graben scheme of railway subgrade engineering, first, according to the …