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"Green Roofs, Facades, and Vegetative Systems analyzes standards, codes, and technical documents from countries around the world including the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Malta, and Australia. An essential resource for building design professionals, this book covers a full range of documents dealing with vegetative systems, such as green roofs, facades, maintenance, fire protection, sustainability aspects in buildings, and tall buildings. This book provides an invaluable tool for not only understanding existing international standards and codes but also how to effectively incorporate them into the project at hand"--Back cover..

Green roofs (Gardening) --- Urban gardening --- Safety measures. --- Design and construction --- Standards. --- City gardening --- Gardening --- Ecoroofs --- Living roofs --- Roof gardening

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Toit --- Roofs --- Plantation d'agrément --- amenity planting --- Plante ornementale --- Ornamental plants --- Choix des espèces --- Choice of species --- 717 --- Daktuin --- Groendak --- 638.5 --- groendak --- planten (lt) --- Green roofs (Gardening) --- Ground cover plants --- Landscape plants --- Landscape gardening --- Plants for landscape gardening --- Woody landscape plants --- Plants, Ornamental --- Cover plants --- Lawns --- Ecoroofs --- Living roofs --- Roof gardening --- Plant material

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This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada. While green roofs were intended to sustain local or regional vegetation, this volume describes how green roofs in their modern form are typically planted with a low-diversity mix of sedums from Europe or Asia. The authors demonstrate how in the western USA and Canada many green roofs have been designed with native plants and have been found to thrive. Part I of this book covers theory and an overview of ecoregions and their implications for green roofs. In Part II vegetation from prairies, deserts, montane meadows, coastal meadows, and scrub and sub-alpine habitats are explored on seventy-three ecoregional green roofs. Case studies explore design concepts, materials, watering and maintenance, wildlife, plant species, and lessons learned. Part II covers an overview of ecoregional green roofs and a future outlook. This book is aimed at professionals, designers, researchers, students and educators with an interest in green roofs and the preservation of biodiversity. .

Green roofs (Gardening) --- Ecoroofs --- Living roofs --- Roof gardening --- Sociology, Urban. --- Sustainable architecture. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Biodiversity. --- Physical geography. --- Plants --- Urban Sociology. --- Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. --- Urban Ecology. --- Physical Geography. --- Plant Evolution. --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Geography --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Architecture --- Sustainable design --- Urban sociology --- Evolution. --- Phylogeny --- Environmental aspects

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It is well known that 55% of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and this figure is predicted to grow to 68% by 2050, adding more than 2.5 billion people to urban populations. It is also projected that there will be 43 megacities worldwide by 2030, with populations of more than 10 million inhabitants. The United Nations World Water Development Report, 2018, warned that by 2030, the global demand for fresh water is likely to exceed supply by 40%. Added to population growth, climate change has the potential to lead to changes in rainfall regimes, with the potential of increased flooding and drought. Currently, 1.2 billion people are at risk from flooding, but this is predicted to increase to about 1.6 billion, i.e., nearly 20% of the total world population, by 2050. In line with this, replacing deteriorating water management infrastructure that can no longer cope is economically unfeasible, impracticable from a construction point of view, and likely to fail in the long term. To address these issues, approaches are needed that are flexible and have multiple benefits. In its World Water Development Report, 2018, the UN promotes the use of nature-based solutions to some of these problems, with the focus of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (making sure that everyone has access to a safe and affordable supply of potable water and sanitation by 2030) requiring investment in suitable infrastructure across the world. This Special Issue covers the challenges faced in managing urban water in all its forms, from potable supplies to reuse and harvesting, as well as resilient and sustainable approaches developed to address flooding and drought.

SWAT --- urbanization --- nutrient loads --- constructed wetlands --- buffer zones --- river bank stabilization --- multi-source combined water supply --- optimal allocation of water resources --- incoming water uncertainty --- guaranteed rate of water use --- groundwater --- Heckman model --- self-supply --- water demand --- water economics --- industry --- climate change --- coastal protection --- coastal flooding --- sea defence --- experimental modelling --- sustainability --- detention basins --- green roofs --- MicroDrainage --- porous pavement --- runoff reduction --- swales --- biological evolution --- ecosystem services --- low impact development (LID) --- stormwater best management practices (BMP) --- stormwater control measures (SCMs) --- sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) --- water sensitive urban design (WSUD) --- potable supplies --- groundwater level changes --- infiltration --- recharge --- climate changes --- water efficiency

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Droughts are one of the main extreme meteorological, and hydrological phenomena, which influence both the functioning of ecosystems, and many important sectors of human economic activity. Throughout the world, various direct changes in meteorological, and climatic conditions, such as: air temperature, humidity, and evapotranspiration can be observed. They have a significant influence upon the shaping of the phenomenon of drought. Land cover and land use can also be indirect factors influencing evapotranspiration, and, by the same token, the water balance in the water catchment area. They can also influence the course of the process of the drought. The observed climate change, manifested mainly by increases in temperature, in turn, influencing evapotranspiration, may cause intensification in terms of both the degree and frequency of droughts. Droughts related to changes in the hydrological regime, and to the decrease in water resources. Its results can be observed in various sectors, related, among others, to a demand for water for people, agriculture and the Industry. It can also prove problematic for water ecosystems. To reflect the aforementioned information, a reasonable drought risk management is indispensable in order to ease the water demand related problems in various sectors of human activity. This book presents original research on various drought indicators, modern measurement techniques used, among others, for monitoring and predicting droughts, drought indicator trends, the impact of insufficient precipitation on human activity in the context of climate change, and examples of modern solutions devised to prevent water shortages.

extensive green roofs --- climate change --- summer drought --- urban vegetation --- phytomass --- fertilizer --- biodiversity --- blue green infrastructure --- pan evaporation --- ANN --- WANN --- SVM-RF --- SVM-LF --- Pusa station --- drought --- SPI --- run theory --- Sen’s estimator --- Mann–Kendall --- Wadi Cheliff Basin --- water stress --- soil moisture --- atmospheric evaporative demand --- eddy covariance --- gross primary productivity --- meteorological drought --- agricultural drought --- atmospheric circulation --- elementary circulation mechanism (ECM) --- information entropy --- atmospheric blocking --- hydrological drought --- trends --- central Poland --- lotic systems --- refuge habitats --- fish --- risk management --- forecasting --- ARIMA --- Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) --- mitigation --- atmospheric drought --- forest drought --- Carpathian Mts. --- beech --- vertical climate zones --- Copernicus Sentinel-1 --- electrical resistivity tomography --- expansive clay --- InSAR --- shrink-swell risk --- SMOS surface soil moisture --- wavelet analysis --- precipitation --- precipitation deficit --- climatic water balance --- n/a --- Sen's estimator --- Mann-Kendall