Street canyons are generally highly polluted urban environments due to high traffic emissions and impeded dispersion. Green infrastructure (GI) is one potential passive control system for air pollution in street canyons, yet optimum GI design currently unclear. This review consolidates findings from previous research on assesses the suitability of different forms terms local quality improvement...

Modern rates of urbanization have a negative impact on the natural objects cities. In turn, residents expect high living standards. To cope with this contradiction allows competent management green infrastructure, which underlies resilience city. It is important to note that not only state participant in development infrastructure The researchers found active position citizens also makes signif...

Abstract Planning and designing sustainable, resilient, healthy landscapes, cities communities is anchored in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by General Assembly of United Nations 2015. Current European strategies, such as EU Green Infrastructure Strategy, Deal, Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, Biodiversity other related policy strategic documents all recognise gree...

Background/Purpose: In the context of the European Biodiversity policy, the Green Infrastructure Strategy is one supporting tool to mitigate fragmentation, inter-alia to increase the spatial and functional connectivity between protected and unprotected areas. The Joint Research Centre has developed an integrated model to provide a macro-scale set of indices to evaluate the connectivity of the N...

In this paper we are introducing a framework towards the inclusion of Green IT metrics as part of service level agreements for future Grids and Clouds. As part of this effort we need to revisit Green IT metrics and proxies that we consider optimizing against in order to develop GreenIT as a Services (GaaS) that can be reused as part of a Software as a Serice (SaaS) and Infrastructure Infrastruc...

introduction the urban population experienced rapid growth in the recent decades, particularly between 1975 and 2000 when it has reached from 1.5 to more than 2 billion people. by turn of the century; half of the world's populations are concentrated in cities. this would severely affect the quality of life in urban areas. accordingly, cities will be faced with significant challenges in inf...

Natural disasters continue to plague the United States, undermining the nation’s ability to build disaster resilient communities. Although structural and non-structural mitigation measures are currently in place to lessen the impact natural disasters have on society, little attention has been given to the construction of green infrastructure as a sustainable hazard mitigation strategy. The purp...