Green Infrastructure and Climate Resilience by Korneykova, Maria; Vasenev, Viacheslav; Dovletyarova, Elvira;

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This book covers the integration of green-gray infrastructure and the development of climate-resilient cities. Climate change and urbanization are the principal global environmental challenges. Up to 70% of the world population is projected to live in cities by 2050. How will this rapid urbanization alter the face of the world? What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What are smart solutions to make life in cities safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly? These and other important questions are addressed by the conferences Smart and Sustainable Cities (SSC). This year’s theme for the conference will be «Green infrastructure and climate resilience». Cities are considered the main sources of anthropogenic greenhouse gases emission. Air and water quality, vegetation and soils in cities are exposed to anthropogenic influence. Studying negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures is among the key tasks of urban ecology and environmental impact assessment. On the contrary, urban green infrastructure provides a wide range of ecosystem functions and services critical to human well-being and urban sustainability under climate change. The following topics are planned for discussion at the conference:

green infrastructures for sustainable and healthy cities; climate mitigation, adaptation and carbon neutrality; soil and water management under global changes; advances in environmental monitoring of urban and technogenic ecosystems; biodiversity of urban soils and green infrastructures.

Table of Contents:

Analysis of perspectives species of the genus Arnica for landscaping Arctic cities.- Sustainable Urban Planning in the Context of Climate Change.- Opportunistic Fungi in Fine Dust from Different Functional Areas of Moscow.- Assessment of the intensity of sediment production in cities in different climatic zones of Russia.- Ecological assessment of Spiraea salicifolia L in Arctic urban environment.- Cultivable Microscopic Fungi of Subarctic Urban Ecosystems Murmansk as an Example.- Changes of birds acoustic activity in urban environment.-
What do residents of St Petersburg value in urban lawns Alternative lawns and their consideration in lawns management.- Assessment of the potential for the use of blue green infrastructure in northern cities.- Seismic method for assessing the technical condition of buildings as the basis for a sustainable city.- Use of absorbent based on peat sphagnum in bioremediation processes of urban ecosystems of the Arctic zone.- Autonomous Low cost DIY Dust Sensor Prototype Development and Operations.- Urban River Zones in Blue Green Infrastructure Assessing Functionality and Efficiency in Novosibirsk.- Forecasting the temperature of urban soil under different mulches a case study of the instrumental sites of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.- The effect of de icing salt based on sodium chloride on the relative resistance of Hemerocallis hybrida.- Citizen Science Approaches to Describing of Urban Herbaceous Covers for Assessing of its Ecosystem Services.- Chernozem urbopedogenetic transformations on the example of Rostov on Don agglomeration.- Assessment of landscape design and species diversity of woody and herbaceous plants in household plots of the Murmansk region.- Targeted activity of local organizers influences biodiversity identification within City Nature Challenge the experience of 2 Russian megacities.- Ammonium Containing Ameliorants Based on Layered Silicates for the Recultivation of Technogenic Materials.