Scientific research on Urban heat islands (UHI) and urban. overheating has set new
challenges for societies regarding risk and vulnerabilities, energy demands and mitigation …

Cities are not only major contributors to global climate change but also stand at the forefront
of climate change impact. Quantifying and assessing the risk potentially induced by climate …

Ambient air pollution in industrial areas is one of the significant problems increasing high
emissions since the 1990s. Atmospheric trace metal deposition in the industrial estate has …

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can improve urban areas' livability, and they are essential to
increase cities' resilience to anthropogenic activities and climate change. In addition, NBS …

The chemical analysis of tree rings has attracted the interest of researchers in the past five
decades in view of the possibility of exploiting this biological indicator as a widely available …

Climate change in combination with increasing urbanization is a major challenge for our
cities. Ecosystem services from the urban green play a significant role in mitigating the …

Urban green spaces (UGSs) are important elements of urban landscapes. Woody vegetation
is a key component of UGSs, providing many socio-ecological benefits such as habitat …

In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed that describes the characteristics
of fluid flow and dispersion of pollutants in a certain quarter of Almaty city, Kazakhstan. The …

The delivery of services and benefits provided by urban forests is threatened by tree limited
growth, decline and mortality. Determining drivers of tree decline and mortality is …

Renewable energies are cleaner forms of energy, and their use, has intensified in recent
decades. Thus, this work presents a proposal for reducing the emissions, fuel cost, and …