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The Green Roofs and Facades as a Tool of Climate Cooling in the Urban Environment

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The aim of this monograph chapter is to introduce green facades and green roofs in the Czech Republic. In the beginning, the history and development of green roofs and facades have been outlined; the type of green roofs and ways of facade greening, structures and systemic solutions, protection against slide and drainage have been described; and the functions and benefits of green roofs and facades have been estimated. Next part discusses measurements of the vapor from green roofs and the cooling effect. Finally, the zero carbon facility has been described—example from Brno (Czech Republic)—The Open Gardens. The results from online monitoring have been shown, and the roof and urban heat islands have been discussed.

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This chapter was written within the project “Green Roofs and Facades as a Tool for Improvement of Thermal and Water Balance in Industrial Space” No. TH03030230 supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.

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  1. Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

    Martin Šenfeldr & Petr Maděra

  2. Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavla Kotásková & Jitka Fialová

  3. Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation, Brno, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Kundrata & Vlastimil Rieger

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Šenfeldr, M., Maděra, P., Kotásková, P., Fialová, J., Kundrata, M., Rieger, V. (2020). The Green Roofs and Facades as a Tool of Climate Cooling in the Urban Environment. In: Zelenakova, M., Hlavínek, P., Negm, A. (eds) Management of Water Quality and Quantity. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18359-2_3

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