Living skins: Environmental benefits of green envelopes in the city context

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 113, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-158

  Roehr, D ^a   Laurenz, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy savings; Energy simulation; Environmental benefits; Green fa ades; Green roofs; Green walls; Living skins

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; COOLING; HEAT ISLAND; HEATING; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN AREA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 58849086272     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ARC080151     Document Type: Article

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