Urban population is becoming less likely to contact with nature. Yet, green infrastructure, as roofs, provide multiple ecosystem services, promoting citizens physical and psychological well-being. With the Coronavirus 19 world pandemic public spaces, like parks other recreational areas, were closed most confined their dwellings. In this context, need for outdoor space in housing environment bec...

To reduce the impact of climate change in form low-carbon developments, innovations sustainable building strategies are imperative. In this regard, performance a double-roof house consisting photovoltaic panel roof (PV) and green (GR) was compared to traditional solar-roof buildings. The synergy between both PV GR systems analysed by numerical simulations physical modelling across four seasons....

Vegetated roofs are human-manufactured ecosystems and potentially promising conservation tools for various taxa habitats. Focussing on arthropods, we conducted a 3 year study newly constructed vegetated with shallow substrates (up to 10 cm) vegetation established pre-grown mats, plug plants seeds describe pioneer arthropod communities compare them ground level communities. We vacuum sampled art...