Greening Our Cities – Reducing the 'urban Heat Island' Effect
Published:04 Sep.2020 Source:Hort Innovation
HEAT IN our cities impacts the health and wellbeing of residents. As cities and towns grow – greenery is lost and replaced with hard constructed surfaces. These surfaces absorb and retain heat causing an ‘urban heat island’ effect.
Hort Innovation’s two-year research project - Conveying the benefits of living turf ‐ Mitigation of the urban heat island effect – shows clear evidence of the benefits of living turf for mitigating the ‘urban heat island’ effect.