Review on A Comprehensive Study on Various Roofs for Thermal Comfort

Abstract

Green roofs have gained attention as sustainable solutions to urban environmental challenges. This comprehensive study delves into the multifaceted aspects of green roofs, including their environmental, economic, and social impacts. The research design incorporated data collection from diverse sites and rigorous analysis to provide a holistic perspective. The study reveals that green roofs exhibit promising benefits in terms of temperature regulation, energy efficiency, stormwater management, and biodiversity promotion. Economic analysis indicates long-term cost savings and ecological advantages, while the social and cultural dimensions shed light on the positive influence on human well-being. This research also delves into policy and regulation aspects, highlighting the importance of supportive measures for wider green roof adoption. Through case studies, practical insights are shared, emphasizing the real-world potential of green roofs. In conclusion, this study recommends the integration of green roofs in urban planning, emphasizing the need for informed decision-making and policy frameworks to unlock the full potential of green roofs in creating sustainable and resilient cities Green roofs have been heralded as a “sustainable building practice” in cities throughout the world as one response to mounting environmental stresses. A range of stressors plus erosion of aesthet-ics and human well being in urban areas have initiated policies and practices often with incentives to develop green infrastructure such as green roofs. They provide a suite of public and private benefits most of which map onto services generally provided by the ecosys-tem. Green roof development imbeds in environmental design pro-cesses and is constrained by both human and environmental factors. As relatively small, simple, anthropogenic ecosystems, green roofs relate to several existing conceptual and applied ecological ideas. Understanding and applying from ecology and ecosystem studies, ecological engineering, managed ecosystems, construction ecology, urban ecology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, reconcilia-tion ecology, soil ecology and community ecology show green roof ecosystems can be created to cycle energy and nutrients. Further-more, green roofs can be constructed to model an ecosystem and may provide a setting for testing ecological concepts. This book takes an ecosystems approach to describing a large number of inter-actions on green roofs placing them in the total human ecosystem.