• Vegetated roofs as a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change in a semiarid city 

      Robbiati, Federico Omar; Cáceres, Natalia; Barea Paci, Gustavo Javier; Ovando, Gustavo; Jim, C.Y.; Suárez, Mario Adolfo; Hick, Emmanuel Christian Bernard; Rubio, Esteban Julian; Galetto, Leonardo; Imhot, Lelia (Elsevier, 2023-05-18)
      cumulating greenhouse gasses. Global warming has been related to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions [1,2]. Urban areas emit a significant amount of greenhouse gasses, including 78% of total CO2 emissions [3]. Transport, ...
    • Vegetative and thermal performance of an extensive vegetated roof located in the urban heat island of a semiarid region 

      Robbiati, Federico Omar; Cáceres, Natalia; Hick, Emmanuel Christian Bernard; Suárez, Mario Adolfo; Soto, Maria Silvina; Barea Paci, Gustavo Javier; Matoff, Evangelina; Galetto, Leonardo; Imhof, Lelia (Elsevier, 2022-01)
      Vegetated roofs reduce temperature and heat flow fluctuations on the building's surface mitigating the urban heat island effects and improving other ecosystem services. The objectives of this work were to quantify thermal ...