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Laura Caggiu, Federico Fiorani, Elisa Corradini, Enrico Felice and Alberto Minelli
In Europe, more than two-thirds of the population live in urban areas. The management of urban green areas and trees is becoming increasingly relevant involving different players and stakeholders, as well for keeping a focus on the Sustainable Developmen...
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Renata Vceláková, Marcela Prokopová, Vilém Pechanec, Lenka ?terbová, Ondrej Cudlín, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Alhuseen, Jan Purkyt and Pavel Cudlín
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Francesco Crupi
To contribute to the debate on climate-proof urban regeneration, the illustrated study seeks to understand how the provision of new multiscalar, multidimensional, and integrated planning tools based on sustainable and resilient strategies can guarantee h...
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Antonio Krishnamurti Beleño de Oliveira, Bruna Peres Battemarco, Giuseppe Barbaro, Maria Vitória Ribeiro Gomes, Felipe Manoel Cabral, Ronan de Oliveira Pereira Bezerra, Victória de Araújo Rutigliani, Ianic Bigate Lourenço, Rodrigo Konrad Machado, Osvaldo Moura Rezende, Paulo Canedo de Magalhães, Aline Pires Veról and Marcelo Gomes Miguez
The urban drainage system plays an important role in the urban infrastructure resilience discussion. Its functional failures can trigger cascading effects on other urban systems and critical infrastructures. The main aim of this work is to investigate an...
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Hadi Zamanifard, Edward A. Morgan and Wade L. Hadwen
Modern stormwater treatment assets are a form of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) features that aim to reduce the volumes of sediment, nutrients and gross pollutants discharged into receiving waterways. Local governments and developers in urban areas ...
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Xu Ge, Dasaraden Mauree, Roberto Castello and Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Currently, more than half of the world?s population lives in cities, which leads to major changes in land use and land surface temperature (LST). The associated urban heat island (UHI) effects have multiple impacts on energy consumption and human health....
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Hui Li, Liuqian Ding, Minglei Ren, Changzhi Li, Hong Wang
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Rapid urbanization in China has caused severe water and environmental problems in recent years. To resolve the issues, the Chinese government launched a sponge city construction program in 2015. While the sponge city construction initiative is drawing at...
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Sara Barron, Stephen R.J. Sheppard and Patrick M. Condon
This paper describes a research project exploring future urban forests. This study uses a Delphi approach to develop a set of key indicators for healthy, resilient urban forests. Two groups of experts participated in the Delphi survey: International acad...
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Kristjan Suits, Ivar Annus, Nils Kändler, Tobias Karlsson, Antonius Van Maris, Antti Kaseva, Nika Kotovica and Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao
In this review paper, we investigate the management of the quality of stormwater in the Baltic Sea region. Current stormwater management practices, standards, and legislation do not accurately depict stormwater quality, resulting in an underestimation of...
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Leila Mosleh, Masoud Negahban-Azar and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Stormwater Green infrastructure (SWGI) is seen as an approach to increase the climate resilience of urban areas, because they can buffer precipitation changes brought on by climate...
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Roger Glick, Jaehak Jeong, Raghavan Srinivasan, Jeffrey G. Arnold and Younggu Her
Computer simulation models are a useful tool in planning, enabling reliable yet affordable what-if scenario analysis. Many simulation models have been proposed and used for urban planning and management. Still, there are a few modeling options available ...
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Ewelina Pochodyla-Ducka, Katarzyna Glinska-Lewczuk and Agnieszka Jaszczak
Stormwater quality in an urban watershed can be influenced by several factors, including land use patterns, atmospheric deposition, and human activities. The objective of this study was to investigate spatial and temporal changes in stormwater quality an...
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Jan Kopp, Jindrich Frajer, Marie Novotná, Jirí Preis and Martin Dolej?
Standardized delimiting of local climate zones (LCZ) will be better applicable to the urban adaptation to climate change when the ecohydrological properties of LCZ units are known. Therefore, the properties of LCZ units based on the methodology of ecohyd...
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Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Kaisa Jaalama, Tuulia Puustinen, Arttu Julin, Juha Hyyppä and Hannu Hyyppä
3D city models and their browser-based applications have become an increasingly applied tool in the cities. One of their applications is the analysis views and visibility, applicable to property valuation and evaluation of urban green infrastructure. We ...
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Kaisa Jaalama, Heikki Kauhanen, Aino Keitaanniemi, Toni Rantanen, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Arttu Julin, Matti Vaaja, Matias Ingman, Marika Ahlavuo and Hannu Hyyppä
The importance of ensuring the adequacy of urban ecosystem services and green infrastructure has been widely highlighted in multidisciplinary research. Meanwhile, the consolidation of cities has been a dominant trend in urban development and has led to t...
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Carlos Martínez, Zoran Vojinovic and Arlex Sanchez
This paper presents the performance quantification of different green-grey infrastructures, including rainfall-runoff and infiltration processes, on the overland flow and its connection with a sewer system. The present study suggests three main component...
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Matthaios Santamouris and Paul Osmond
Urban vegetation provides undeniable benefits to urban climate, health, thermal comfort and environmental quality of cities and represents one of the most considered urban heat mitigation measures. Despite the plethora of available scientific information...
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Greg D. Simpson, Jackie Parker, Erin Gibbens and Philip G. Ladd
Vegetation trampling that arises from off-trail excursions by people walking for recreation can negatively impact the structure of understory plants in natural spaces that are an essential element of urban green infrastructure in a modern city. In additi...
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Jennifer Atchison
Darwin?s mangrove ecosystems, some of the most extensive and biodiverse in the world, are part of the urban fabric in the tropical north of Australia but they are also clearly at risk from the current scale and pace of development. Climate motivated mark...
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Eva Lieberherr and Olivia Odom Green
As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent adva...
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