Green roofs are artificial ecosystems that provide a nature-based solution to environmental
challenges such as climate change and the urban heat island. Green roofs aid in the …

Green roofs are an interesting technology that has attracted worldwide attention because of
the multi-disciplinary benefits, involving the improvement of stormwater management, the …

Recognizing greywater as a relevant secondary source of water and nutrients represents an
important chance for the sustainable management of water resource. In the last two …

Green roofs are an effective nature-based solution to eco-environmental problems arising
from climate change and rapid urbanization because they provide multiple ecosystem …

Green roofs have been proposed as an efficient and practical tool to combat urbanisation in
many countries. This review paper focuses on various benefits associated with green roofs …

The temperature of cities continues to increase because of the heat island phenomenon and
the undeniable climatic change. The observed high ambient temperatures intensify the …

Scarcity of resources and environmental issues caused by human activities stimulate
designers and policy makers to search for energy efficient strategies for sustainable …

This paper attempts to evaluate the positive effects of vegetation with a multi-scale
approach: an urban and a building scale. Monitoring the urban heat island in four areas of …

Green roofs are a passive cooling technique that stop incoming solar radiation from
reaching the building structure below. Many studies have been conducted over the past 10 …

Green roofs have several environmental benefits, such as improving building energy
efficiency. The present paper provides a comprehensive study of the impact of a green roof …