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Architecture, 2023 Green roofs are becoming popular in urban areas due to their potential benefits, including energy efficiency, urban heat island mitigation, and stormwater management. However, their water consumption can negatively impact water resources.
Majed Abuseif
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POTENTIAL FOR URBAN GREENING WITH GREEN ROOFS: A WAY TOWARDS SMART CITIES [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 Cities are experiencing increased pressure on social, economic, and environmental sectors due to the rapid urbanisation and increasing risk owing to climate change affecting the urban environment.
M. Y. Joshi +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Green roofs and rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are two popular mitigation strategies to reduce the net building energy demand and ease urban heat island (UHI) effect. This research tested the potential mitigation effects of green roofs and solar
Yuanfan Zheng, Qihao Weng
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Investigating the Barriers to Implementation of Green Roofs in Izmir, Turkey
Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2023 As a sustainable approach to urban environmental management, green roofs are becoming more and more popular. They have been discovered to help reduce the urban heat island effect, insulating against noise and heat, managing stormwater, and eventually ...
Burçin Doğmuşöz
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Multilayer blue-green roofs as nature-based solutions for water and thermal insulation management
Hydrology Research, 2022 Green roofs have been widely recognized as sustainable nature-based solutions to mitigate floods in urban areas, which, in the last decades, are increasing due to the combination of intense worldwide urbanization and climate change.
Elena Cristiano +17 more
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Fine‐scale substrate heterogeneity in green roof plant communities: The constraint of size
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Heterogeneity–diversity relationship (HDR) is commonly shown to be positive in accordance with classic niche processes. However, recent soil‐based studies have often found neutral and even negative HDRs. Some of the suggested reasons for this discrepancy
Amiel Vasl +3 more
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Development of a certification methodology for “green” roofs [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesThis study examines design solutions in construction aimed at creating ecosystems within urban environments. The focus of the study are”green” roofs as a part of “green” building practices (next – green).
Lisienkova Liubov +2 more
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Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Spontaneous Plants on Green Roofs
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 Green roofs have the potential to provide socio-ecological services in urban settings that lack vegetation and open space. However, implementation of green roofs is limited by high construction and maintenance costs.
Dean Schrieke +4 more
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Urban green roofs can support a diversity of parasitoid wasps
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Green roofs are often installed atop buildings to provide ecological services such as mitigating storm water runoff and cooling air within urban heat islands.
Aramee C. Diethelm, Susan E. Masta
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Mitigating urban heat island through green roofs [PDF]
, 2015 One of the key measures to fight urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon is by increasing the use of green approaches including green technologies and vegetation.
Shahidan, Mohd Fairuz +4 more
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