Green Roofs and Water Retention in Košice, Slovakia

1. Front Matter

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2. Questionnaire

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3. Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now

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4. Heat Islands

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5. Colors

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6. Košice

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7. Modeling Košice Heat Islands Map

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8. Modeling Košice Green Roofs Map

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9. Back Matter

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This book discusses how climate change and heat islands are a main contributor to water related problems in urban areas in Košice, Slovakia. Green roofs are used as a tool to assist in solving these water related issues. The need to provide housing in urban areas is expected to rise to 66% in 2050, according to the United Nations. Many urban areas have seen natural permeable green areas replaced with concrete constructions and hard, non-permeable surfaces. The densification of existing built-up areas is responsible for the decreasing vegetation, which results in the lack of evapotranspiration cooling the air, thereby creating urban heat islands. Several studies, discussed in this book, have shown that natural and permeable surfaces, as in the case of green roofs, can play a crucial role in mitigating this negative climate phenomenon and providing higher efficiency for buildings, leading to savings such as water, one of the focal points of this research.

• Building Construction and Design
• Climate Change and Water Management
• Concrete Structures, Permeable and Non-Permeable Surfaces
• Greenery and Trees
• Green Roofs and Water Retention
• Infrastructures - Blue, Green
• Urban Heat Islands
• climate change impacts
• water quality and water pollution

• Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia

  Zuzana Poórová, Zuzana Vranayová

Zuzana Poórová is architect and assistant professor at the Institute of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University in Kosice. She is specialized in green infrastructures - green roofs and walls and their retention qualities in terms of city urbanism, heat island and climate change. Focusing on current issues such as sponge city.

Zuzana Vranayová is professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University in Kosice, Department of Building Services. She is conducting various researches on her major field of study of water supply and drainage system in buildings. She is also actively involved in governmental and academic institutions and committees related to her field of study as chief coordinator and board member.

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