Green Infrastructure Dover John W. Staffordshire University Stoke-On-Trent UK
Green Infrastructure Dover John W. Staffordshire University Stoke-On-Trent UK With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities…
Specifikacia Green Infrastructure Dover John W. Staffordshire University Stoke-On-Trent UK
Green Infrastructure Dover John W. Staffordshire University Stoke-On-Trent UK
With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The author reviews issues such as: contact with wildlife and its immediate and long-term effects on psychological and physical wellbeing; the role of vegetation in removing health-damaging pollutants from the air; green roofs and green walls, which provide insulation, reduce energy use and decrease the carbon footprint of buildings; and structural vegetation such as street trees, providing shading and air circulation whilst also helping to stop flash-floods through surface drainage. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional benefits to humans.
Examples are used throughout to illustrate the practical use of vegetation to improve the
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