Green roof and green wall benefits and costs: A review of the quantitative evidence

M Manso, I Teotónio, CM Silva, CO Cruz - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Greening the urban environment can be an important strategy to tackle the problems of
urban densification and meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Green …

Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4

Z Liu, W Cheng, CY Jim, TE Morakinyo, Y Shi… - Building and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Urban green and blue infrastructures (GBI) are considered an effective tool for mitigating
urban heat stress and improving human thermal comfort. Many studies have investigated the …

Green roof benefits, opportunities and challenges–A review

M Shafique, R Kim, M Rafiq - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Research on the green roof has been raised expeditiously over the past decade. Green roof
have been proposed as the sustainable practice to mitigate the adverse effects of …

Three decades of urban heat islands and mitigation technologies research

H Akbari, D Kolokotsa - Energy and buildings, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Although the urban heat island (UHI) phenomena phenomenon has was been documented
over a century ago, the effect of the urban heat island on urban climate and environment …

A bibliometric review of green building research 2000–2016

X Zhao, J Zuo, G Wu, C Huang - Architectural Science Review, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
This study presents a summary of green building research through a bibliometric approach.
A total of 2980 articles published in 2000–2016 were reviewed and analyzed. The results …

State-of-the-art analysis of the environmental benefits of green roofs

U Berardi, AH GhaffarianHoseini, A GhaffarianHoseini - Applied energy, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Green roofs have been proposed for sustainable buildings in many countries with different
climatic conditions. A state-of-the-art review of green roofs emphasizing current …

Cooling the cities–a review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments

M Santamouris - Solar energy, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The temperature of cities continues to increase because of the heat island phenomenon and
the undeniable climatic change. The observed high ambient temperatures intensify the …

[كتاب][B] Urban ecology: science of cities

RTT Forman - 2014‏ - books.google.com
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Outdoor thermal comfort by different heat mitigation strategies-A review

M Taleghani - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Due to the ongoing global warming, heat mitigation strategies are becoming implemented
through practice and simulations. These efforts aim to make the cities that are dealing with …

Life cycle assessment of building materials: Comparative analysis of energy and environmental impacts and evaluation of the eco-efficiency improvement potential

IZ Bribián, AV Capilla, AA Usón - Building and environment, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The building industry uses great quantities of raw materials that also involve high energy
consumption. Choosing materials with high content in embodied energy entails an initial …