Sustainable urban development relies on forward-looking infrastructure development. As an
emerging infrastructure system that incorporates green technologies, the Metro-based …

Climate change is affecting infrastructure in complex and uncertain ways. Traditional load
factors, safety factors, and design standards appear misaligned with current and anticipated …

Currently, the world is facing resource scarcity as the environmental impacts of human
intervention continue to intensify. To facilitate the conservation and recovery of ecosystems …

Urban plans can promote the implementation and scaling up of nature-based solutions
(NbS) through the adoption of specific policy instruments. These can be applied to different …

Nature-based solutions (NbS) present an opportunity to reduce rising temperatures and the
urban heat island effect. A multi-scale study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, evaluates the effect …

This paper made a systematic literature review about Nature-based Solutions and public
policies worldwide, considering the Web of Science database. The study proposal is to …

Climate change is a long-term global change in weather patterns such as in temperature,
rainfall, snow, or wind pattern, lasting for decades or longer across different regions of the …

The potential of using nature‐based solutions to address issues of climate change has
continued to gain momentum, especially in developed nations. However, the same cannot …

Air pollution, the presence of harmful or excessive concentrations of pollutants in the Earth's
atmosphere, results in severe health impacts, including respiratory and cardiovascular …

Land use change is a significant contributor to global environmental change. The expansion
of urban areas has increasingly impacted rural ecological environments, in particular the …