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 …

Observing the rapid urban expansions and numerous infrastructure developments in the
East-Asian context, many cities are suffering the urban heat island (UHI) effect and its …

Asphalt-based materials are abundant and a major nontraditional source of reactive organic
compounds in urban areas, but their emissions are essentially absent from inventories. At …

Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the
studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of …

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 …

Economic and social development of urban and rural areas continues in parallel with the
increase of the human population, especially in developing countries, which leads to …

The urban environment has distinctive biophysical features in relation to surrounding rural
areas. These include an altered energy exchange creating an urban heat island, and …

This study evaluates the effectiveness of green and cool roofs as potential Urban Heat
Island (UHI) mitigation strategies, and the impacts of these strategies on human thermal …

Reconciling human and non-human use of urban regions to support biological conservation
represents a major challenge for the 21st century. The concept of reconciliation ecology, by …

Abstract Urban Heat Islands (UHI) are urban and suburban areas with elevated surface and
air temperatures relative to surrounding rural areas. This study combines variables from the …