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Julio César García-Colin, Carlos Díaz-Delgado, Humberto Salinas Tapia, Carlos Roberto Fonseca Ortiz, María Vicenta Esteller Alberich, Khalidou M. Bâ and Daury García Pulido
The present work proposes the use of green infrastructure (GI) called sustainable urban agriculture drainage systems with water reuse (SUADS-WR) to manage percolated water sustainably in urban agricultural areas (f.i. golf courses). The substrate of the ...
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Samanta Bacic, Hrvoje Tomic, Goran Andlar and Miodrag Roic
Today, more than half of the world?s population lives in urban areas, and this percentage is increasing every day. Accelerated urbanization leads to overbuilding, air and environmental pollution, climate change, and various other environmental problems. ...
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Carlos Martínez, Zoran Vojinovic and Arlex Sanchez
This paper presents the performance quantification of different green-grey infrastructures, including rainfall-runoff and infiltration processes, on the overland flow and its connection with a sewer system. The present study suggests three main component...
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Yoganand Korgaonkar, David Phillip Guertin, Thomas Meixner and David C Goodrich
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices are being implemented in numerous cities to tackle stormwater management issues and achieve co-benefits such as mitigating heat island effects and air pollution, as well as water augmentation, health, and economic bene...
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Janine Bolliger and Janet Silbernagel
A major goal of green infrastructure (GI) is to provide functional networks of habitats and ecosystems to maintain biodiversity long-term, while at the same time optimizing landscape and ecosystem functions and services to meet human needs. Traditionally...
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Matthaios Santamouris and Paul Osmond
Urban vegetation provides undeniable benefits to urban climate, health, thermal comfort and environmental quality of cities and represents one of the most considered urban heat mitigation measures. Despite the plethora of available scientific information...
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Leena Jaydeep Shevade, L. James Lo and Franco A. Montalto
Green infrastructure (GI) is a decentralized stormwater management strategy that can simultaneously enhance the resilience of the urban landscape to weather-related stressors. The effectiveness of individual GI facilities is determined by the physical ch...
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Rae Zimmerman, Ryan Brenner and Jimena Llopis Abella
Green infrastructure (GI) has increasingly gained popularity for achieving adaptation and mitigation goals associated with climate change and extreme weather events. To continue implementing GI, financial tools are needed for upfront project capital or d...
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Sam Abdollahian, Hamidreza Kazemi, Thomas Rockaway and Venkata Gullapalli
Green infrastructure (GI) stormwater control measures (SCMs), such as permeable pavement systems, are common practices used for controlling stormwater runoff. In this paper, two permeable pavement strips were studied to quantify their water quality perfo...
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Gloria Rodríguez-Loinaz, Lorena Peña, Igone Palacios-Agundez, Ibone Ametzaga and Miren Onaindia
The contributions of green infrastructure (GI) to human well-being have been widely recognised; however, pathways for its systematic implementation are missing. Local governments can play a crucial role in the conservation of GI, and a formal recognition...
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