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Klimawandelgerechte Stadtentwicklung durch grüne Infrastruktur

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2015
Urban vegetation and green spaces play a crucial role in dealing with the impacts of climate change: urban green spaces regulate the micro-climate in densely built-up and overheated settlement areas, and support the percolation of rain water and the ...
Stefanie Rößler
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Calibration event selection for green urban drainage modelling

open access: yes, 2019
Calibration of urban drainage models is typically performed based on a limited number of observed rainfall-runoff events, which may be selected from a longer time-series of measurements in different ways.
Viklander, Maria,   +7 more
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Planning and Design Strategies for Green Stormwater Infrastructure from an Urban Design Perspective

open access: yes, 2023
With the rapid advancement of ecological civilization construction, prioritizing green stormwater infrastructure to address urban stormwater management issues has become an important strategy for ecological priority and green development in sustainable ...
Jianqin Zhang   +3 more
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Green Infrastructure as Urban Melody: The Integration of Landscape Principles into Green Infrastructure Planning and Design in China and the UK

open access: yes, 2023
The concept of green infrastructure has gained political momentum globally and, therefore, has been rapidly introduced into planning theory, policy, and practice in the USA and Europe. Yet, it does not have a single widely recognised or accepted definition and has been adopted fluidly by various disciplines.
Li, Ying, Mell, Ian
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Review of the Role of Urban Green Infrastructure on Climate Resiliency: A Focus on Heat Mitigation Modelling Scenario on the Microclimate and Building Scale

open access: yesUrban Science
This systematic review explores the role of urban green infrastructure (UGI) in enhancing climate resilience, focusing mainly on heat mitigation modelling and its application at both urban and building scales. The study analyses 207 articles published in
Kawar Salih   +1 more
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Return on Investment in Green Urban Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rapid urbanisation is taking place at an unprecedented rate throughout the world, with the rate of growth often outpacing urban planning and the capacity of city managers. As a result, existing natural areas within
Forsythe, Katherine   +13 more
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Green infrastructure and urban sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesAIP Conference Proceedings, 2018
Temperature increase in urban areas due to the urban heat island as well as the global climate change inevitably raises the peak load supply for space cooling as well as the risk of heat-related illness in hot climate. This paper provides the comprehensive review of the thermal mitigation effect of urban vegetation based on the field observations.
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Green Infrastructure for Urban Flood Resilience: A Review of Recent Literature on Bibliometrics, Methodologies, and Typologies

open access: yes, 2023
Urban flood resilience can critically diminish the negative effects of extreme climatic conditions. In recent decades, green infrastructure has been gaining attention among researchers and authorities in terms of its use in urban contexts to enhance ...
Khodadad, Mina   +5 more
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Regenerative Green Infrastructure Governance in Weak, Rebounding, and Wealthy Land Markets

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021
Too often scholars valorize green infrastructure without critically examining the dynamic and multi-faceted ways that greening impacts urban environments. Cities are complex, evolving forces of their own, which grow and shrink according to time and place.
Katherine Foo
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Citizen Willingness to Pay for the Implementation of Urban Green Infrastructure in the Pilot Sponge Cities in China

open access: yes, 2023
Urban green infrastructure has been widely used to in cities to solve stormwater problems caused by extreme weather events and urbanization around the world.
Xiu-Juan Qiao   +3 more
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