Lake ecosystems are essential for human wellbeing and development for their capacity to
provide multiple ecosystem services (ES). However, because of an anthropogenic-driven …

Reflected in the growing body of literature, urban heat mitigation is increasingly relevant as
cities experience extreme heat, exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanisation. Most …

In terrestrial landscape architecture, land surface temperature (LST) is a key estimator of
local climate, vegetation growth, and urban transition. It also represents the environmental …

Land surface temperature (LST) is influenced by a variety of factors. Relative studies have
been carried out extensively in recent years. However, the intricate relationship has yet to be …

Urban development and population growth have resulted in several critical impacts on the
society, environment, and economy. One of the main impacts is the increase in temperature …

The cities of arid and semi-arid regions have distinctive landscape patterns and large-scale
variations in soil moisture and vegetation cover which causes significant variations in land …

Due to global warming under climate change scenarios, Indus delta region of Pakistan is
under serious threat since the last few decades. The present study was thus conducted to …

Societal and technological advances have triggered demands to improve urban
environmental quality. Urban green space (UGS) can provide effective cooling service and …

Intense urbanization alters the microclimate and ecology of cities by converting naturally
vegetated and permeable surfaces into impervious built-up surfaces. These artificial …

Urban rivers play an important role in mitigating the surrounding temperatures, but the
contributions of the influencing factors are still unclear. Using remote sensing data captured …