Green Roofs and Climate Change in Sustainable Urban Development

The book of Green Roofs and Climate Change in Sustainable Urban Development is the integration of thinking under the main direction of the sustainable development. Global warming and climate change have been discussed in various context both mitigation and adaptation specifically the solving by green roof in this book. It is mentioned as the possibility in reducing the problem related to not only heat reduction through the roof but also the urban heat island problem. or heat reduction of the city ambient but also time extension of city before the flooding. The intensive green roof concerning the utilization of the area is always used to be compared with the extensive green roof which is designed without the need to access on the top of the green roof for other purposes. The air plant green roof which is the concept by author has been inserted along the book to show the selection of some plant to reduce the problem of green roof maintenance be cause of the growth retardant. The practice in Nepal had been reviewed to show the real case which is not easy to start for the city but it should be done. In term of the performance of the green roof, the equations for heat balance are summarized. The appendix of green wall is the related issue might help the reader to move towards.