A sustainable development perspective on urban-scale roof greening priorities and benefits
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13692v1
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:40:41 GMT
- Title: A sustainable development perspective on urban-scale roof greening priorities and benefits
- Authors: Jie Shao, Wei Yao, Lei Luo, Linzhou Zeng, Zhiyi He, Puzuo Wang, Huadong Guo,
- Abstract summary: We conduct an urban-scale assessment of roof greening at a single building level in Hong Kong.
We identify that 85.3% of buildings reveal potential and urgent demand for roof greening.
Green roofs could increase greenspace exposure by textasciitilde61% and produce hundreds of millions (HK$) in economic benefits annually.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: Greenspaces are tightly linked to human well-being. Yet, rapid urbanization has exacerbated greenspace exposure inequality and declining human life quality. Roof greening has been recognized as an effective strategy to mitigate these negative impacts. Understanding priorities and benefits is crucial to promoting green roofs. Here, using geospatial big data, we conduct an urban-scale assessment of roof greening at a single building level in Hong Kong from a sustainable development perspective. We identify that 85.3\% of buildings reveal potential and urgent demand for roof greening. We further find green roofs could increase greenspace exposure by \textasciitilde61\% and produce hundreds of millions (HK\$) in economic benefits annually but play a small role in urban heat mitigation (\textasciitilde0.15\degree{C}) and annual carbon emission offsets (\textasciitilde0.8\%). Our study offers a comprehensive assessment of roof greening, which could provide reference for sustainable development in cities worldwide, from data utilization to solutions and findings.
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