[HTML][HTML] Sponge city practices in China: From pilot exploration to systemic demonstration

D Yin, C Xu, H Jia, Y Yang, C Sun, Q Wang, S Liu - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, China has been committed to strengthening environmental governance and
trying to build a sustainable society in which humans and nature develop in harmony. As a …

Life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative green roofs–A systematic literature review

AT Balasbaneh, W Sher, A Madun, A Ashour - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
There is general agreement on the importance of green roofs as ways of reducing GHG
emissions, reducing overall costs and improving sustainability in urban areas. This …

Assessing and optimizing the hydrological performance of Grey-Green infrastructure systems in response to climate change and non-stationary time series

M Wang, M Liu, D Zhang, J Qi, W Fu, Y Zhang, Q Rao… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has led to the increased intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological
events, threatening the drainage capacity in urban catchments and densely built-up cities …

A multi-objective decision-making framework for implementing green-grey infrastructures to enhance urban drainage system resilience

H Tansar, HF Duan, O Mark - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Green-grey infrastructures implementation for addressing urban flood damages and urban
drainage system'(UDS) resilience (respectively) needs comprehensive evaluation under …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of urban green space in terms of thermal environmental benefits using geographical detector analysis

X Wang, Q Meng, L Zhang, D Hu - International Journal of Applied Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban green space (UGS) plays an indispensable role in urban spaces, providing important
ecological services to compensate for natural environment functions damaged by rapid …

Optimizing the layout of coupled grey-green stormwater infrastructure with multi-objective oriented decision making

Y Yao, J Li, N Li, C Jiang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
In urban water management, the green infrastructures and grey infrastructures are
complementary in function, effectively alleviating urban flooding and non-point source …

Multi-stage optimization framework for synergetic grey-green infrastructure in response to long-term climate variability based on shared socio-economic pathways

S Zhou, H Diao, J Wang, W Jia, H Xu, X Xu, M Wang… - Water Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Global climate change and rapid urbanization have increasingly intensified extreme rainfall
events and surface runoff, posing significant challenges to urban hydrological security …

Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus

M Pedersen Zari, M MacKinnon, K Varshney… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The expansion of urban environments contributes to climate change and biodiversity loss.
Implementing nature-based strategies to create 'regenerative living cities' will be critical for …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective optimization for green-grey infrastructures in response to external uncertainties

L Leng, H Jia, AS Chen, DZ Zhu, T Xu, S Yu - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimized green-grey infrastructures are promising solutions to combat the urban flood
and water quality problems which have been severe owe to the increasing urbanization and …

Life-cycle cost analysis and resilience consideration for coupled grey infrastructure and low-impact development practices

M Wang, Y Zhang, D Zhang, Y Zheng, S Li… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies have suggested that coupling grey infrastructure (GREI) with low-impact
development may be a promising approach to urban stormwater management. However …