Advances in Green Roof

A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another form of green roofs which are used to treat greywater.Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system constitute the green roof.

Green roofs serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, increasing benevolence, and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by providing a more aesthetically pleasing landscape, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. Green roofs are suitable for retrofit or redevelopment projects as well as new buildings and can be installed on small garages or larger industrial, commercial and municipal buildings. They effectively use the natural functions of plants to filter water and treat air in urban and suburban landscapes. There are two types of green roof: intensive roofs, which are thicker, with a minimum depth of 12.8 cm , and can support a wider variety of plants but are heavier and require more maintenance, and extensive roofs, which are shallow, ranging in depth from 2 to 12.7 cm, lighter than intensive green roofs, and require minimal maintenance.

In the present book, ten typical literatures about Green roofs published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on Green roofs. We hope this book can demonstrate advances in Green roofs as well as give references to the researchers, students and other related people.

Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (246 KB)
Components of the Book:
  • Chapter 1
    Combined strategies for green roof incentive policies in Lisbon: Evaluating the potentiality of concession grants and identifying priority intervention areas
  • Chapter 2
    Water storage levels and water storage capacity of an extensive green roof quantified from multi-year eddy covariance measurements
  • Chapter 3
    Plant diversity on green roofs: A review of the ecological benefits, challenges, and best management practices
  • Chapter 4
    Close-range imaging for green roofs: Feature detection, band matching, and image registration for mixed plant communities
  • Chapter 5
    Predicting multi-annual green roof net ecosystem exchange using machine learning
  • Chapter 6
    A daily time-step hydrological-energy-biomass model to estimate green roof performances across Europe to support planning and policies
  • Chapter 7
    Investigating the cooling effect of a green roof in Melbourne
  • Chapter 8
    A modeling framework to assess the crop production potential of green roofs
  • Chapter 9
    Impacts of slope and length on the hydrological performance of green roof drainage mats
  • Chapter 10
    Understanding the hydrological performance of green and grey roofs during winter in cold climate regions
Readership: Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in green roofs.
Niklas Markolf
Climatology and Environmental Meteorology, Institute of Geoecology, Technische University, Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, 38106, Germany

Jannik Heusinger
Climatology and Environmental Meteorology, Institute of Geoecology, Technische University, Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, 38106, Germany

Marc W. Cadotte
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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