Green buildings, although critical to climate change mitigation, have a huge investment
deficit. Green finance provides a viable option for bridging the green buildings investment …

Green roofs are strategic tools that can play a significant role in the creation of sustainable
and resilient cities. They have been largely investigated thanks to their high retention …

Green roofs are gaining interest as nature-based solutions (NBS) to counteract with several
environmental and socio-economic problems associated to urban sprawl and climate …

Different low impact development measures have been proposed to make cities more flood-
resilient, and recent literature is paying great attention to the evaluation of their direct …

Green roofs have been widely recognized as sustainable nature-based solutions to mitigate
floods in urban areas, which, in the last decades, are increasing due to the combination of …

Green roofs are complex systems, with a vegetation layer covering the outermost surface of
the building shell. An effective design may confer environmental and energy benefits. Most …

Several nature based and climate adaptive solutions have been proposed to improve cities
resilience to the effects of global warming and restore natural processes in strongly …

Increased urbanization combined with the intensification of short rainfall events has
worsened the urban flood issue. Among the different blue-green solutions to mitigate pluvial …

Climate change coupled with increasing urbanization has made extensive green roofs, both
for retrofitting and new developments, an attractive way to bring nature back to cities, while …

The building sector is responsible for nearly 40% of the total global direct and indirect CO2
emissions. Urban green infrastructure, which includes features such as urban trees …