Climate change increases risks to natural and human systems. Green infrastructure (GI) has
been increasingly recognized as a promising nature-based solution for climate change …

In urban areas, one way of mitigating the adverse effects of air pollution is the sustainable
rooftop practice known as green roofs. How green roofs can help reduce carbon emissions …

In the next decades, the increase in global population will lead to further urbanization
determining, on the one hand, an increase in building energy use and, on the other hand, a …

The growing rate of urbanization and alterations in natural land-use/land-cover properties
cause many worldwide environmental issues such as Urban Heat Island (UHI), low Thermal …

Green roofs have the potential to offer numerous ecosystem services; however, they are
rarely designed to achieve them. Instead, design is restricted by perceived structural and …

Green infrastructure (GI) mitigates the negative effects of urbanization and provides
hydrological and bioecological benefits. However, these benefits are highly scale …

Rapid urbanization and an increasing number and duration of heat waves poses a need to
mitigate extremely high temperatures. One of the repeatedly suggested measures to …

Reflected in the growing body of literature, urban heat mitigation is increasingly relevant as
cities experience extreme heat, exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanisation. Most …

It is generally accepted that green roofs can influence thermal properties of a building, but
there is some disagreement on the role that substrate depth and plant species plays in this …

Urbanisation has replaced vegetation and natural spaces with hard and impervious surfaces
and this transition in cities has led to a sequence of adverse events in urban ecosystems …