Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

NH Wong, CL Tan, DD Kolokotsa… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

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 …

Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban …

Z Yu, J Chen, J Chen, W Zhan, C Wang, W Ma… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Previousstudies on the cooling of urban vegetation mainly focused on its transpiration or
shading effect separately, neglecting to explore the combined evapotranspiration-shading …

[HTML][HTML] Critical review on the cooling effect of urban blue-green space: A threshold-size perspective

Z Yu, G Yang, S Zuo, G Jørgensen, M Koga… - Urban forestry & urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cooling effect of blue-green space has been recognized as a promising approach to
mitigate the urban heat island (UHI), while the quantitative role (threshold-size for cooling) is …

[HTML][HTML] How can urban green spaces be planned to mitigate urban heat island effect under different climatic backgrounds? A threshold-based perspective

W Zhou, W Yu, Z Zhang, W Cao, T Wu - Science of the total environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban green space (UGS) was widely regarded as an effective nature-based solution to
mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, therefore, develo** landscape strategies to …

Planning of urban green spaces: An ecological perspective on human benefits

T Semeraro, A Scarano, R Buccolieri, A Santino… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the context of urban land-use growth and the consequent impacts on the environment,
green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The ecosystem services …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards

P Kumar, SE Debele, J Sahani, N Rawat… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
To bring to fruition the capability of nature-based solutions (NBS) in mitigating hydro-
meteorological risks (HMRs) and facilitate their widespread uptake require a consolidated …

[HTML][HTML] The win-win interaction between integrated blue and green space on urban cooling

W Zhou, W Cao, T Wu, T Zhang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The contributions of urban blue and green spaces on urban cooling are widely
acknowledged. However, the combined cooling effect of integrated blue and green space …

A cold island connectivity and network perspective to mitigate the urban heat island effect

W Qian, X Li - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Many studies have proposed strategies to mitigate the urban heat island effect from the
perspective of landscape patches, yet few studies have mitigated the urban heat island …

How can urban blue-green space be planned for climate adaption in high-latitude cities? A seasonal perspective

G Yang, Z Yu, G Jørgensen, H Vejre - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change has increased the frequency of extreme climatic events and the intensity of
heatwaves in high-latitude cities that have rarely been affected in the past, yet there is less …