[HTML][HTML] Principles and criteria for assessing urban energy resilience: A literature review

A Sharifi, Y Yamagata - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas and given the
projected increase in world׳ s urban population, this share is expected to further increase in …

Cascades of green: A review of ecosystem-based adaptation in urban areas

E Brink, T Aalders, D Ádám, R Feller… - Global environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change impacts increase pressure on challenges to sustainability and the
developmental needs of cities. Conventional,“hard” adaptation measures are often …

[HTML][HTML] Maximizing the pedestrian radiative cooling benefit per street tree

JA Lachapelle, ES Krayenhoff, A Middel… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Outdoor heat stress is a growing problem in cities during hot weather. City planners and
designers require more pedestrian-centered approaches to understand sidewalk …

[HTML][HTML] Optimized greenery configuration to mitigate urban heat: A decade systematic review

J Fu, K Dupre, S Tavares, D King… - Frontiers of Architectural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban vegetation is a nature-based solution for cooling cities. Under global warming and
urban population growth, it is essential to optimize urban vegetation configuration in the …

Quantifying the seasonal cooling capacity of 'green infrastructure types'(GITs): An approach to assess and mitigate surface urban heat island in Sydney, Australia

C Bartesaghi-Koc, P Osmond, A Peters - Landscape and urban planning, 2020 - Elsevier
Green infrastructure (GI) can help moderate urban overheating and mitigate surface urban
heat islands (SUHIs) by providing protection from solar radiation, cooling surfaces through …

Microclimatic differences and their influence on transpirational cooling of Tilia cordata in two contrasting street canyons in Munich, Germany

MA Rahman, A Moser, T Rötzer, S Pauleit - Agricultural and Forest …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban trees can help to mitigate the urban heat island through evapotranspiration. However,
growing conditions in cities are heterogeneous and micrometeorological conditions in street …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of urban green and blue spaces to the United Nation's sustainable development goals: an evidence gap map

C Tate, R Wang, S Akaraci, C Burns, L Garcia… - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to make a significant contribution
to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research shows the need …

Green space configuration and its impact on human behavior and URBAN environments

CFB Teixeira - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Trees and green spaces are part of the environmental systems that are essential to the
quality of human life in urban spaces. In general, Brazilian cities have a high proportion of …

Greenwall classification and critical design-management assessments

CY Jim - Ecological Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract greenwall research can promote wider applications in cities to contribute to climate-
change adaptation and ameliorate the urban heat island effect. The accumulated knowledge …

Forecasting urban forest ecosystem structure, function, and vulnerability

JWN Steenberg, AA Millward, DJ Nowak… - Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
The benefits derived from urban forest ecosystems are garnering increasing attention in
ecological research and municipal planning. However, because of their location in …