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Positive effects of vegetation: urban heat island and green roofs.
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It is found that both the white and the green roofs are less impactive than the black one; with the thermal resistance, the biological activity of plants and the surface albedo playing a crucial role.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 593 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban heat island & Green roof.read more
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Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the state of the art on both the above technologies, when applied in the city scale, and present the definition of the limits, the boundaries and the conditions under which the considered technologies reach their better performance in a synthetic way.
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State-of-the-art analysis of the environmental benefits of green roofs
TL;DR: In this article, a state-of-the-art review of green roofs emphasizing current implementations, technologies, and benefits is presented in order to show how green roofs may contribute to more sustainable buildings and cities.
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Human–environment interactions in urban green spaces — A systematic review of contemporary issues and prospects for future research
TL;DR: In this paper, a review examines 219 publications to provide an overview of the current state of research on the relationship between humans and urban green spaces, group the different research approaches by identifying the main research areas, methods, and target groups, and highlight important future prospects in urban green space research.
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Efficiency of parks in mitigating urban heat island effect: An example from Addis Ababa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the cooling effect of vegetation on urban surface and air temperature, 21 parks in Addis Ababa were studied and found that Eucalyptus sp. had a significantly higher cooling effect than any other species group (P < 0.05) and the species with the least effect on temperature were Grevillea and Cupressus.
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Urban adaptation can roll back warming of emerging megapolitan regions
TL;DR: It is shown that, in the absence of any adaptive urban design, urban expansion across the United States imparts warming over large regional swaths of the country that is a significant fraction of anticipated temperature increases resulting from greenhouse gas-induced warming.
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The Urban Climate
TL;DR: The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer as discussed by the authors, and provides an assessment of the urban atmosphere on a synoptic and local scale.
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Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services
Erica Oberndorfer,Jeremy Lundholm,Brad Bass,Reid Coffman,Hitesh Doshi,Nigel Dunnett,S. Gaffin,Manfred Köhler,Karen K. Y. Liu,D. Bradley Rowe +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors emphasize the potential for improving green-roof function by understanding the interactions between its ecosystem elements, especially the relationships among growing media, soil biota, and vegetation.
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Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a spatial analysis to assess the urban heat island (UHI) skin temperature amplitude and its relationship to development intensity, size, and ecological setting for 38 of the most populous cities in the continental United States.
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Temperature decreases in an urban canyon due to green walls and green roofs in diverse climates
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal effect of covering the building envelope with vegetation on the microclimate in the built environment, for various climates and urban canyon geometries, is discussed.