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Green Infrastructure: Key Solution to Urban Heat Islands and Climate Change

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Addressing the Urban Heat Islands Effect: A Cross-Country Assessment of the Role of Green Infrastructure
Walter Leal Filho, Franziska Wolf, Ricardo Castro-Díaz, Chunlan Li, Vincent Nduka Ojeh, Néstor Moreno Gutiérrez, Gustavo J. Nagy, Stevan Savić, Claúdia E. Natenzon, Abul Quasem Al‐Amin, Marija Maruna, Juliane Bönecke

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