DRR – Season 2 Ep.6 | Sponge Cities and Heat Islands

DRR – Season 2 Ep.6 | Sponge Cities and Heat Islands 
Topics: Innovative approaches on how to tackle flood risk and microclimates in urban areas. 

Collaborators:

Matteo Rolle, PhD (Polytechnic University of Turin)

Expertise: Virtual water content in agricultural products
Email: matteo.rolle@polito.it
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-rolle-9628b697/
Project website: https://watertofood.org

References:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Sponge-Cities

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/28/chinas-sponge-cities-are-turning-streets-green-to-combat-flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZSxhksY2xc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiq0NbJmaw

https://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/blogs/sponge-cities-are-solution-urban-flooding

http://plus.usgbc.org/dutch-dialogues/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05607-x

https://uk.reuters.com/article/heatwave-cities-nature/feature-sponges-urban-forests-and-air-corridors-how-nature-can-cool-cities-idUKL5N1LU3BK

https://ndma.gov.in/iwdri/ppts/15jan/TS-1/1/IWDRI2018_TS1_Yokoyama_ADB.pdf

http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2018/02/breathing-highways-and-spongecities.html

https://vannforeningen.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nie.pdf

https://www.power-to-the-people.net/2016/05/6-priorities-for-sponge-cities/

https://www.dsd.gov.hk/Documents/SustainabilityReports/1617/en/sponge_city.html

https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/sponge-cities-what-is-it-all-about/

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html

http://www.geocoops.com/urban-microclimates.html

https://www.britannica.com/science/water-cycle/media/278858/112177

https://wbae.com/projects/dutch_dialogues

https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/the-dutch-dialogues/3818

https://www.americanrivers.org/threats-solutions/clean-water/stormwater-runoff/

https://www.epa.gov/heat-islands/what-you-can-do-reduce-heat-islands

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/1/213