For a sustainable urban environment, the adoption of building-integrated photovoltaics
(BIPV) is a promising solution. Despite multiple studies on BIPV in individual buildings, scant …

Trees are an integral component of the urban environment and important for human well-
being, adaption measures to climate change and sustainable urban transformation …

Access to affordable sustainable energy is a significant challenge for many lowincome
countries experiencing energy poverty. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development …

Many cities across the world are committing to deep decarbonisation efforts. While solar
photovoltaics (PV) will play a critical role in this pursuit, the role of rooftop and facade …

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in energy produced by renewable sources.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects a large portion of future growth in renewable …

Abstract Distributed Multi-Energy Systems (D-MES) can sustainably transform the energy
supply of buildings, districts, and communities by integrating multiple energy efficient …

Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO ₂ emissions in
the European Union. To bring these levels down, governments are striving to promote a …

Mining is an important human activity that significantly affects the landscape character,
particularly through excavation of spoil material and its deposition on spoil banks. The …

Remotely sensed data provide many opportunities for enhancing our understanding of the
built and natural environment. Representations of the urban landscape from light detection …

To unlock the solar energy integration in the built environment, the assessment of the BIPV
potential for existing urban areas represents a preliminary fundamental step. In fact, by …