Spatial biophysical-economic impact assessment of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Abstract: During these three years of my PhD, I had an incredible learning experience, both in my professional and personal life.This path was challenging and not easy, but various people supported me with their encouragement and positive critiques.Firstly, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Prof. Alessandro Pezzoli, who has been a constant support, and who has always shown complete faith in me.I am thankful to him for believing in my capabilities by giving me the freedom to explore different ideas.He helped me strengthen my personality.This research would not be possible without the precious support of Prof. Elena Comino and Prof. Peter Roebeling, who helped me shape the topic of this thesis.Through their constant supervision, their insightful thoughts, suggestions, and discussion on environmental issues, they helped me find my way while also inspiring me to work on this research every day.I take the opportunity to gratefully acknowledge Prof. Peter Roebeling and the University of Aveiro for hosting me for half of duration of my PhD.In addition, my personal growth and advancement in this research was further enhanced by the involvement and collaboration with the Horizon 2020 UNaLab project.In this context, I am grateful to all people I met in Aveiro during these last two years, and I would like to thank my research group (affectively dubbed "the Minions") for their valuable advice.I am thankful to my colleague and friend Fábio Matos for supporting me during the development of this research, for assisting me with the application of GIS tools, and especially for his commitment to reviewing the English in this work.I would like to thank the reviewers Prof. Rolf Groeneveld and Prof. Gang Li for their insightful guidance that helped to improve the final version of this thesis in its form and clearness.Likewise, I would also like to thank the Committee president, Prof. Isabella Lami, and Committee members Prof. Luis Costa and Prof. Davide Geneletti for their time and availability.My special thanks go to my parents,
Source: PORTO@Iris
Author: QUAGLIOLO, CARLOTTA
Language: English
Topic: Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Cambridge
OpenAlex ID: W7216701623