Green infrastructure as key tool for climate adaptation planning and policies to mitigate climate change: Evidence from a Pakistani City

M Mumtaz - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
This study advances the understanding of climate adaptation strategies in cities of the
developing world using green infrastructure (GI). The role of GI and promoting greenery in …

Combining deep learning and multi-source GIS methods to analyze urban and greening changes

M Francini, C Salvo, A Vitale - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although many authors have observed a degradation in greening cover alongside an
increase in the built-up areas, resulting in a deterioration of the essential environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Greening the compact city: Unarticulated tensions and incremental advances in municipal climate action plans

R Hautamäki, T Puustinen, T Merikoski, A Staffans - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Municipal climate policies tie in closely with sustainable urban development. Land use has
far-ranging impacts on carbon emissions from mobility, housing, and consumption; as well …

Governance of densification and climate change adaptation: How can conflicting demands for housing and greening in cities be reconciled?

S Erlwein, J Meister, C Wamsler, S Pauleit - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces are important for climate change adaptation, in particular to reduce the
negative impacts of heat waves on human well-being. However, in growing cities urban …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of changing urban typologies on residential vegetation and its climate-effects–A case study from Helsinki, Finland

PK Leppänen, A Kinnunen, R Hautamäki, L Järvi… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Residential green spaces are an integral part of urban green infrastructure and its role in
climate change adaptation and mitigation. Various urban typologies and changing planning …

A dynamic performance and differentiation management policy for urban construction land use change in Gansu, China

Y Ma, P Zhang, K Zhao, Y Zhou, S Zhao - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Making efforts to promote rationalized urban construction land change, distribution,
allocation, and its performance is the core task of territory spatial planning and a complex …

Integrating climate policy objectives into municipal land policies: From conceptualization to empirical evidence from Finland

T Puustinen, H Falkenbach, A Ekroos… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Urban development ties in closely with climate change mitigation and adaptation. However,
little is known about how climate policy objectives are incorporated into municipal land …

[HTML][HTML] City street experiments and system change: Identifying barriers and enablers to the transformative process

K VanHoose - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023 - Elsevier
City street experiments continue to be employed as a tool to improve urban mobility and
liveability. Despite growing popularity, understanding of this transformative process, and …

Infilling in Germany. Estimating the extent of infilling in German municipalities between 1979 and 2011

S Eichhorn - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve the German government's 30-hectare land take per day target, infilling is
considered a key planning guideline. However, there are hardly any valid empirical results …

[HTML][HTML] Urban dynamics and their implication on greenness trends: A 25-year retrospective study of the changing face of tokyo metropolitan area

Q Wang, C Takatori, Z Chen - Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Global metropolises and their needs for green space are rising due to demographic
urbanization. Some phenomena contradicted to prevailing understanding have been …