Abstract
Climate change, at different scales, is already recognized as an emergency. To achieve the 1.5 °C goal, cities, which in the next years will assist to a further expansion worldwide, are requested to progress towards a climate urbanism.
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) applied to the built environment, namely, green roofs and walls, and urban greening can contribute to alleviate climate change mitigating urban heat island (UHI), providing a healthier urban environment, and contributing to restore natural ecosystems. In turn, UHI mitigation, a mesoscale phenomenon, has chain effects which can potentially influence upper scales. For instance, UHI mitigation entails a decrease in building energy use for cooling. Furthermore, green roofs and walls can regulate building envelope temperature entailing a potential decrease in insulating materials – which usually are carbon dioxide intensive – avoiding manufacture-related greenhouse gas emissions and guaranteeing, anyway, a comfortable indoor climate. Altogether, NbS can simultaneously result beneficial for both local and global scale.
The current chapter investigates, in a geographical multi-scale perspective, benefits, co-benefits, and trade-offs of NbS applied to the built environment, as well as it looks at experiences and approaches used by municipalities to mitigate UHI by means of NbS.
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Susca, T. (2021). Nature-Based Solutions Applied to the Built Environment to Alleviate Climate Change: Benefits, Co-benefits, and Trade-offs in a Geographical Multi-scale Perspective. In: Lackner, M., Sajjadi, B., Chen, WY. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6431-0_123-2
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