Green Roofs and Water Retention in Košice, Slovakia

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This book discusses how climate change and heat islands are a main contributor to water related problems in urban areas in Košice, Slovakia. Green roofs are used as a tool to assist in solving these water related issues. The need to provide housing in urban areas is expected to rise to 66% in 2050, according to the United Nations. Many urban areas have seen natural permeable green areas replaced with concrete constructions and hard, non-permeable surfaces. The densification of existing built-up areas is responsible for the decreasing vegetation, which results in the lack of evapotranspiration cooling the air, thereby creating urban heat islands. Several studies, discussed in this book, have shown that natural and permeable surfaces, as in the case of green roofs, can play a crucial role in mitigating this negative climate phenomenon and providing higher efficiency for buildings, leading to savings such as water, one of the focal points of this research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Questionnaire (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 1-37 Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 39-58 Heat Islands (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 59-68 Colors (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 69-80 Košice (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 81-95 Modeling Košice Heat Islands Map (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 97-108 Modeling Košice Green Roofs Map (Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová)....Pages 109-128 Back Matter ....Pages 129-133