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State-of-the-art analysis of the environmental benefits of green roofs
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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.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2014-02-15. It has received 580 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable design & Urban heat island.read more
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Review on urban vegetation and particle air pollution – Deposition and dispersion
TL;DR: In this paper, a review revealed that design and choice of urban vegetation is crucial when using vegetation as an ecosystem service for air quality improvements, while low vegetation close to sources can improve air quality by increasing deposition.
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Air pollution abatement performances of green infrastructure in open road and built-up street canyon environments – A review
K.V. Abhijith,Prashant Kumar,John Gallagher,John Gallagher,Aonghus McNabola,Richard Baldauf,Francesco Pilla,Brian Broderick,Silvana Di Sabatino,Beatrice Pulvirenti +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined published literature on neighbourhood air quality modifications by green interventions and provided a better understanding of the interactions between vegetation and surrounding built-up environments and ascertain means of reducing local air pollution exposure using green infrastructure.
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A comprehensive study of the impact of green roofs on building energy performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of green roofs on indoor air temperature and cooling and heating demand was analyzed for a single-family house with conventional and green roofs in a temperate French climate.
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Green roofs: A critical review on the role of components, benefits, limitations and trends
Abstract: Green roofs have been proposed as an efficient and practical tool to combat urbanisation in many countries. This review paper focuses on various benefits associated with green roofs and research efforts made till date to promote green roofs. Through systematic comparison of literature, this review also emphasises knowledge gap that prevail in green roof technology and highlight the need for local research to install green roofs in developing and under-developed countries. Considering that growth substrate, vegetation and drainage layer determine the success of green roof, efforts were made to consolidate desirable characteristics for each of these components and suggests methodology to construct practical green roofs. This critical review also explores limitations associated with green roofs and recommend strategies to overcome. Apart from stand-alone green roofs, there is a huge scope for hybrid green roof systems with other established techniques, which are presented and discussed. Recommendations for future study are also provided.
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Green roof benefits, opportunities and challenges – A review
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the history of the green roof, green roof components and multiple benefits associated with green roof technology is presented, and some of the recommendations are also provided.
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Estimation of land surface temperature-vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies
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Adapting cities for climate change: the role of the green infrastructure.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the important role that the green infrastructure of a city can play in adapting for climate change and present output from energy exchange and hydrological models showing surface temperature and surface runoff in relation to green infrastructure under current and future climate scenarios.
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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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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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Green roofs as a tool for solving the rainwater runoff problem in the urbanized 21st century
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the original measurements reported in 18 publications and derived empirical models to assess the surface runoff from various types of roofs, when roof characteristics and the annual or seasonal precipitation are given.