The current awareness of the high importance of urban green leads to a stronger need for tools to comprehensively represent urban green and its benefits. A common scientific approach is the development of urban ecosystem services (UES) based on remot...
Adaptation to climate change is becoming one of the main paradigms for how cities function and develop. The significant role of green infrastructure (GI) as a tool for cities to adapt to climate change is increasingly emphasized among practitioners o...
Spontaneous plants are plants that occur in urban environments such as pavement gaps or cracks in walls without cultivation and are not remnants of historic native habitats. They are critical components of urban road green space vegetation, and their...
The population that lives in cities has surpassed the one that lives in the countryside. Cities are recognized as apriority source of pollution. The degradation of air quality and the phenomenon of Urban Heat Island (UHI) are some of the most well-kn...
At present, most plateau-constrained cities worldwide—plateau cities whose spatial form is strictly constrained by topography—have entered the late stage of urbanization. The relationship between urban form and the surrounding geographic...
Strengthening climate resilience constitutes a foundational approach through which cities adapt to climate change and mitigate associated environmental risks. However, research on the influence of economic policy environments on climate resilience re...
The implementation of a decentralized blue–green infrastructure (BGI) is a key strategy in climate adaptation and stormwater management. However, the integration of urban trees into the multifunctional infrastructure remains insufficiently addr...
Population ageing is reshaping the use and evaluation of everyday urban green spaces, especially in old urban districts where nearby public spaces support walking, resting, exercise, and social contact. Conventional age-friendly assessments often emp...
This study aimed to develop criteria for the expert assessment of the visual attractiveness of informal urban green spaces and compare these results with indicators derived from spectral indices and geospatial data. The research was conducted in Lubl...
Rapid urbanization and climate change have intensified flood risk and ecological degradation along urban riverfronts. Recent literature suggests that combining green and grey infrastructure can enhance resilience while delivering ecological and socia...
Rising temperatures within the urban context, as a result of climate change and the Urban Heat Island effect, have deteriorated thermal comfort conditions in outdoor urban spaces, especially during hot, Mediterranean summer days. This study investiga...
Urban green spaces are crucial for the exchange of energy fluxes, particularly sensible heat (QH) and latent heat (QE) fluxes. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the characteristics of plant communities in urban green areas that affect turbul...
Adapting spatial development to the challenges of climate change is a major task facing cities. In particular, urban heat islands caused by increasing average temperatures and urban growth are a challenge for cities. The use of climate simulations to...
Urban heat stress is becoming increasingly urgent, yet it remains understudied within the broader intersection of climate change and spatial justice. While urban climate scholarship has largely focused on climatic impacts such as flooding, rising sea...
The balance governing the exploitation of resources on Earth is nowadays undermined by different accelerating processes, as population growth, pollution increase and, above all, climate change: the consequences on human well-being and on natural ecos...
With the intensification of global urbanization and climate change challenges, urban green spaces and urban forests are playing an increasingly critical role in supporting sustainable urban development. Based on the Web of Science Core Collection, th...
Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) are vital components of urban socio-ecological systems, providing ecological, environmental and social benefits. Growing urbanisation, climate change and biodiversity loss highlight the need to better integrate ecological pr...
9 December 2025
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is widely used to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Its multiple benefits are well documented, with health-related benefits receiving growing attention, especially post-COVID-19. However, the existing evidence r...
Urban green spaces play a fundamental role in maintaining ecological stability, supporting biodiversity, regulating urban microclimates, and improving human wellbeing. Because photosynthetic activity is a key indicator of vegetation functionality and...
Climate-induced pressures spur on the need for urban green infrastructure (UGI) planning. This approach offers a possible way to improve ecosystem functionality and human well-being in adversely affected urban regions, wherein UGI is perceived as a g...
Leaf functional traits are an important part of plant adaptive strategies and respond differently to different environments, but our understanding of how plants adapt to highly complex urban environments through coordinated changes in leaf functional...
Against the backdrop of global warming, extreme heat events have become increasingly frequent and persistent across Chinese cities, posing severe threats to public health, industrial safety, and urban operations. Enhancing urban climate adaptation th...
Urban areas increasingly face heat-related climate risks, necessitating targeted, nature-based interventions such as tree planting to improve resilience, livability, and public health. This study presents a data-driven workflow to identify urban tree...
In order to maximise the benefits of green infrastructure in a city’s structure for urban adaptation to climate change, there is a need to support decision-makers in the urban design domain with adequate information that would help them to loca...
Cities are currently facing increasing challenges related to climate change, demographic pressure, and urban expansion. In this context, urban resilience has emerged as a strategic approach to anticipate, withstand, and adapt to environmental and soc...
Rapid urbanization has intensified the mismatch between urban green space (UGS) and urban spatial vitality (USV), hindering sustainable development. To address this, we developed the Urban Green Space Vitality Adaptation Model (UGSVAM) and analyzed 6...
Integrating green infrastructure in urban planning for urban sustainability to stay environmentally equitable, ecologically resilient, and climate adaptive is gradually becoming significant. Using remote sensing data, GIS analytical methods, and urba...
In the context of escalating global temperatures and intensified heat waves, the Mediterranean region emerges as a noteworthy hotspot, experiencing a surge in the frequency and intensity of these extreme heat events. Nature-based solutions, particula...
Urban stormwater infrastructure is at an increased risk of being overwhelmed by pluvial flood events due to climate change. Currently, there are no global standards or frameworks for approaching urban rainfall adaptation policy. Such standards or fra...
Extreme climate change is today’s world’s most pressing and challenging problem. Increases in greenhouse gas emissions, the warming of the atmosphere and ocean, increased precipitation, rising sea levels, and temperature rise are the majo...
In response to the global challenges brought on by climate change, cities around the world are adapting, innovating through nature-based strategies for sustainable development. Climate adaptation requires new interdisciplinary approaches in which dif...
Urbanisation in the context of climate change and rapid population growth presents an urgent need for innovative and sustainable urban planning. This study introduces the Green Blueprint, an original, spatially grounded, and evidence-informed concept...
Contemporary post-war cities increasingly require adaptive urban systems capable of addressing climate vulnerability, infrastructural instability, environmental degradation, and human well-being simultaneously. This study develops an interdisciplinar...
The intensification of urban heat islands in high-density coastal slope areas poses significant challenges to sustainable development. From the perspective of sustainable urban design, this study investigates adaptive greening strategies to mitigate...
In response to the growing pressure from urban expansion and the risks associated with climate change, adapting cities and reintroducing nature into the urban environment are becoming increasingly urgent. The implementation of Urban Green Infrastruct...
Leaf functional traits are the essential components of adaption plant strategies and have different responses to various environments, but our knowledge of how plants adapt to highly complex urban environments through coordinated changes in leaf func...
20 September 2022
Rising vulnerability of the urban green infrastructure (UGI) is grabbing global attention, for which inclusive urban landscape and greening policies (ULGP) and frameworks are crucial to support green growth. As such, this research intends to explore...
The city of Izmir (Turkey) has experienced one of the most rapid and fastest urbanization processes in the last thirty years; more than 33 thousand hectares of agricultural and seminatural land have been transformed into urban areas, leading to a dra...
The ongoing effect of climate change heating up urban areas is forcing cities to exploit the adaptation potential of their public open spaces. Streets and squares are important urban open spaces that can contribute to climate change adaptation throug...
Urban overheating poses major challenges in Mediterranean cities, affecting public health and well-being. This study comparatively evaluates how alternative greening configurations influence urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort in a brownfi...
Cities play a central role in shaping societal responses to the climate crisis, concentrating both on climate risks and institutional capacity to address them. While climate impacts are widely distributed, they are experienced unevenly, with marginal...
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) provides a practical framework for enhancing urban resilience. This study had three objectives: (i) to quantify the structural attributes and ecosystem services (ESs) of campus street trees, (ii) to integrate LiDAR-de...
Climate-driven intensification of pluvial and fluvial flooding increasingly challenges lowland cities in Central Europe, while conventional protection and land-use controls offer limited flexibility under growing hydrological variability. A planning-...
This study aims to identify the defining characteristics of pocket parks and evaluate their ecological and socio-economic significance by analyzing their contribution to sustainable development, in alignment with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Dev...
Identifying where nature-based solutions should be prioritized has become a critical task for climate-adaptive urban stormwater management under the combined pressures of climate change and urban expansion. Taking the central urban area of Beijing as...
Climate change intensifies natural disasters, requiring enhanced understanding of urban resilience mechanisms. While green infrastructure’s disaster mitigation role has been established through engineering studies, empirical evidence linking gr...
Urban Green Infrastructures (UGIs) have gained increasing relevance in the field of climate adaptive design because of their capacity to provide regulating ecosystem services apt to respond to the impacts of global warming with short-term strategies....
Green Urban Infrastructure Solutions (GUIS) are becoming more and more popular globally. Recent research reveals the environmental benefits derived from GUIS as well as their contribution to climate change adaptation. However, the urgent need for GUI...
Urban forestation has become a key policy tool for addressing contemporary environmental, climatic, and social challenges. In Italy—particularly in Rome—recent climate mitigation and environmental improvement initiatives have promoted aff...
Green Infrastructure (GI) is crucial for urban climate adaptation, providing ecosystem services like mitigating the urban heat island effect and enhancing stormwater management, alongside benefits for public health and biodiversity. Effective GI impl...
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