Green roof and green wall benefits and costs: A review of the quantitative evidence

M Manso, I Teotónio, CM Silva, CO Cruz - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Greening the urban environment can be an important strategy to tackle the problems of
urban densification and meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Green …

[HTML][HTML] Green infrastructure for air quality improvement in street canyons

M Tomson, P Kumar, Y Barwise, P Perez… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Street canyons are generally highly polluted urban environments due to high traffic
emissions and impeded dispersion. Green infrastructure (GI) is one potential passive control …

Green roof benefits, opportunities and challenges–A review

M Shafique, R Kim, M Rafiq - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Research on the green roof has been raised expeditiously over the past decade. Green roof
have been proposed as the sustainable practice to mitigate the adverse effects of …

Biodiversity in the city: fundamental questions for understanding the ecology of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation

CA Lepczyk, MFJ Aronson, KL Evans, MA Goddard… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As urban areas expand, understanding how ecological processes function in cities has
become increasingly important for conserving biodiversity. Urban green spaces are critical …

Towards green roof implementation: Drivers, motivations, barriers and recommendations

G Zhang, BJ He - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2021 - Elsevier
The environmental challenges in cities urge people to explore feasible strategies for
resilient, sustainable, healthy and livable built environments, of which designing and …

Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

SE Hobbie, NB Grimm - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly
important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify …

Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review

H Liu, F Kong, H Yin, A Middel, X Zheng, J Huang… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Green roofs are an effective nature-based solution to eco-environmental problems arising
from climate change and rapid urbanization because they provide multiple ecosystem …

Green infrastructure practices for improvement of urban air quality

VM Jayasooriya, AWM Ng, S Muthukumaran… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices have shown to be promising in mitigating the air pollution
in urban areas of several cities across the world. GI practices such as trees, green roofs and …

A global geospatial ecosystem services estimate of urban agriculture

N Clinton, M Stuhlmacher, A Miles… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Though urban agriculture (UA), defined here as growing of crops in cities, is increasing in
popularity and importance globally, little is known about the aggregate benefits of such …

A comprehensive study on green roof performance for retrofitting existing buildings

S Cascone, F Catania, A Gagliano, G Sciuto - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Green roofs present a viable solution for increasing rainwater retention while improving the
energy performance of both new and existing buildings. Considering the widespread …