Ecosystem services
Event
Heat in the city: understanding and mitigating urban heat islands
Cold materials, wind corridors, cool zones, mixed revegetation, green walls and roofs are among the solutions that make it possible to attenuate urban heat islands.
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Pilot site
Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech
AgroParisTech’s experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by
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Tool
Biodi(V)strict®
This diagnostic tool for the state of biodiversity in a neighbourhood compares the impact of different construction or rehabilitation projects on biodiversity in the city.
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Editorial: why a practical guide to rooftop vegetable gardens?
Historically, agriculture has forged our societies, in terms of both their social and spatial organisation. While the development of agriculture has led to sedentarisation and so the establishment of cities, the urban
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The first guide from the lab recherche environnement on rooftop urban agriculture
The guide by Fanny Provent and Paola Mugnier, published by Editions Eyrolles, will be available in ebook format and in bookstores.
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Research area
Biodiversity
Reconciling nature and the city, a highly artificial environment, is an art that is practised from the scale of the building to that of the suburban territory, including that of the neighbourhood.
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