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Marek Chabada, Pavol Durica and Peter Juras
Current building envelope greening systems are not just areas covered with vegetation. Today?s systems can maximise the functional contribution of vegetation to a building?s performance and become part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy. The impact ...
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Zaloa Azkorra-Larrinaga, Naiara Romero-Antón, Koldobika Martin-Escudero and Gontzal Lopez-Ruiz
Green roofs are artificial ecosystems that provide a nature-based solution to environmental problems such as climate change and the urban heat island effect by absorbing solar radiation and helping to alleviate urban environmental, economic, and social p...
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Ming Fai Chow, Muhammad Fadhlullah Abu Bakar, Jee Khai Wong and Lloyd Ling
Extensive green roof is one of the sustainable urban stormwater management alternatives to manage and mitigate the urban surface runoff. In order to implement green roofs more effectively, suitable plant species and substrate components for tropical clim...
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A growing number of local green roof niches across the globe are transitioning into the mainstream domain. Guidelines are key to this process, as they define technological environments and set the criteria for best practices in a given socio-technical se...
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Youcan Feng, Steven J. Burian and Eric R. Pardyjak
While the rain-driven evapotranspiration (ET) process has been well-studied in the humid climate, the mixed irrigation and rain-driven ET process is less understood for green roof implementations in dry regions, where empirical observations and model par...
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Anna Palla, Ilaria Gnecco and Paolo La Barbera
In an existing urban environment, retrofitting low impact development (LID) solutions can provide an opportunity to address flooding and water quality problems. Taking into account the need to effectively estimate the impact of vegetated LIDs, particular...
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Vladimír Hamouz, Jardar Lohne, Jaran R. Wood and Tone M. Muthanna
Rooftops represent a considerable part of the impervious fractions of urban environments. Detaining and retaining runoff from vegetated rooftops can be a significant contribution to reducing the effects of urbanization, with respect to increased runoff p...
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Anna Palla, Ilaria Gnecco and Luca G. Lanza
Loss of natural soil and vegetation within the urban environment can significantly affect the hydrologic cycle by increasing storm water runoff rates and volumes. In order to mitigate these modifications in urban areas engineered systems are developed, s...
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