Planning nature-based solutions for urban flood reduction and thermal comfort enhancement

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2019, Pages

  Majidi, Abdul Naser ^a,b   Vojinovic, Zoran ^a,b,c,d   Alves, Alida ^a   Weesakul, Sutat ^b,e   Sanchez, Arlex ^a   Boogaard, Floris ^f,g   Kluck, Jeroen ^g,h  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e Khet Ratchathewi   (Thailand)

^f HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^g Tauw Environment Ltd   (Netherlands)

^h AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ENVI met; Flood risk reduction; Microclimatic simulations; Mike Urban; Nature based solutions; Thermal comfort enhancement

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; MICROCLIMATE; THERMAL CONVECTION; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; THAILAND;

EID: 85075859422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11226361     Document Type: Article

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