The impact of urban green infrastructure as a sustainable approach towards tropical micro-climatic changes and human thermal comfort

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 34, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-9

  Galagoda, R U ^a   Jayasinghe, G Y ^a,c   Halwatura, R U ^b   Rupasinghe, H T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CO2 concentration; Indoor thermal comfort; Occupants satisfaction; Relative humidity; Vertical greening systems (VGS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048508066     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2018.05.008     Document Type: Article

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