Urban Heat Island effect is a crucial issue for many metropolitan cities, while environmental consequences of climatic change continuously overwhelm every region all over the world. Many countries take extensive measures so as to counterbalance potential effects in people’s everyday life, creating different technologies and strategies of mitigation. Since ancient times, green roofs constitute a great concern as a mediator between nature and the artificial urban environment. But how the implementation of the specific type of vegetated roof can deeply be involved in environmental consequences generated by human activity into fast-paced urban layout?
This particular study aims to comprehend the direct environmental contribution of a specific green roof type to some fundamental impacts of Urban Heat Island effects. The evaluation is conducted by Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Cost assessment of a hypothetical implementation into a particular case-study area in the city of Thessaloniki, a small metropolitan centre of Southern Europe.
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