The Energy-Saving Potential of a Green Roof on Existing Residential Buildings. A Case Study of Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2023 Residential buildings are the major sector in the construction industry that consume energy and affect the whole environment. Controlling these effects has always been the foremost concern, especially the existing ones.
Asmaa Elantary, Muhammed Saleem
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Prospects of green roof technology as a sustainable solution to urban pollution index
Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 This study was conducted to explore the impact of rooftop plantations on local air quality under agro-ecological conditions of Lahore and Faisalabad. An optoelectronic sensing device was used to capture particulate matter concentration, while heavy metal
Mehak Shehzad +3 more
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Sensitivity of soil hydrogen uptake to natural and managed moisture dynamics in a semiarid urban ecosystem [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 The North American Monsoon season (June–September) in the Sonoran Desert brings thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. These rains bring cooler temperature and account for roughly half of the annual precipitation making them important for biogeochemical ...
Vanessa Buzzard +4 more
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Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, 2023 The Johannesburg metropolitan city, which is the largest city in South Africa, like others in most emerging or developing economies, is plagued by numerous challenges among which is food insecurity.
Adeline Ngie, Nobukhosi Sithole
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Vers la définition des projets agricoles en ville : METH-EXPAU®, un itinéraire méthodologique
Territoire en Mouvement, 2021 Since two decades urban agriculture has been booming and a wide range of forms, from urban allotment gardens to rooftop farming under greenhouse are developing.
Giulia Giacchè +4 more
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Updating the Building Code to Include Indoor Farming Operations [PDF]
, 2020 Urban agricultural production has grown to be a critical tool in the battles for food security and sustainability. A common regulatory barrier to urban agricultural operations big and small has been ambiguity in land-use laws.
Simpson, Clint
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The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London [PDF]
, 2018 Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the ...
Corsi, Stefano +8 more
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Promoting Urban Farming for Creating Sustainable Cities in Nepal
Urban Science, 2023 This paper responds to the research question, “can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?” Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable ...
Keshav Bhattarai, Ambika P. Adhikari
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Evaluating the Drought Endurance of Landscaping Ground Cover Plants in a Roof Top Model
Horticulturae, 2021 Vegetative ground covers are commonly used in urban, tropical roadside gardens. Such landscaping ground covers usually encounter extreme water-deficits and high temperatures from vehicles and urban infrastructures.
Nath Pichakum, Aussanee Pichakum
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2020 Urban agglomerations create extreme microclimates for plants, in which growth, development and survival means adaptation. Plantations expansions beyond the typical gardens to buildings, walls or other build structures were realized in many cities with a ...
Sorina A. PETRA +6 more
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