Urban areas are expanding due to rural-urban migration and due to population increases.
Their resilience is being challenged due to socio-political consequences of increasingly …

Infrastructure-based heat reduction strategies can help cities adapt to high temperatures, but
simulations of their cooling potential yield widely varying predictions. We systematically …

Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major
contemporary challenge that substantially impacts urban livability and sustainability …

In the next decades, the increase in global population will lead to further urbanization
determining, on the one hand, an increase in building energy use and, on the other hand, a …

Growing interest in the concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) raises the question of its
applicability as a broadly-understood approach to resource management and spatial …

Abstract The European Union has emphasized policies promoting photovoltaic (PV) energy
generation to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13 …

Green roofs can mitigate climate change through various mechanisms, including carbon
sequestration, thermal process regulation, and building energy savings. While those …

Urban tree cover is widely regarded as an environmentally-friendly and effective urban
cooling approach. Meteorological variables, including air temperature, wind speed, and …

Abstract As the European Union transitions towards cleaner energy production, significant
emphasis is placed on the use of photovoltaic (PV) panels on roofs. Although PV panels …

Urban population growth has resulted in land use changes and the replacement of many
vegetated areas with hard surfaces that have a higher heat capacity than vegetation and …