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Green infrastructure and its influence on urban heat island, heat risk, and air pollution: A case study of Porto (Portugal).

Journal of Environmental Management
Green infrastructure plays a fundamental role in mitigating the effects of urban heat island. Vegetation may trap particulates and absorb pollutants like ozone, thus improving air quality.
Hélder Silva Lopes, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Nadhima Cherif, L. Silva, P. Remoaldo   +4 more
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Urban Green Infrastructure as a tool for urban heat mitigation: Survey of research methodologies and findings across different climatic regions

Urban Climate, 2018
The combined trends of urban heat island intensification and global warming are focusing attention on greening of cities as a tool for urban heat mitigation.
H. Saaroni, J. Amorim, J. Hiemstra, D. Pearlmutter   +3 more
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Singapore’s Green Infrastructure and Biophilic Urbanism

2019
Fragmentation of native habitats, regimentation of watercourses and waterbodies, and the rejection of the colonial green belt accounted for the lack of environmental sustainability of the park system. Improvements of urban ecology were achieved through the development of a network of park connectors made of greenways and waterbodies restored with ...
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Adapting cities for climate change through urban green infrastructure planning

, 2021
R. Ramyar, A. Ackerman, D. Johnston
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Green Infrastructure for Blue Urban Watersheds

2018
The "green infrastructure" includes and expands upon principles inherent in low impact development (LID) technology, which have been developed and tested by innovative nonprofit engineering and design professionals. LID weighs local site design decisions within a larger context of regional watershed.
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Green Infrastructure Planning in Urban Sweden

Planning Practice and Research, 2002
(2002). Green Infrastructure Planning in Urban Sweden. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 373-385.
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Green infrastructure and urban wellbeing

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022
Wenjie Wu, Ye Liu, Zhonghua Gou
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Urban green infrastructure

2020
Stephan Pauleit, Rieke Hansen, Emily L. Rall, Werner Rolf   +3 more
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A review of empirical studies of cultural ecosystem services in urban green infrastructure.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2021
Xin Cheng, S. van Damme, P. Uyttenhove
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Infectious disease in an era of global change

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021
Rachel E Baker, Ayesha S Mahmud, Ian F Miller   +2 more
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