🌟 New Research Published! 🌟
- jenachao
- Apr 21
- 1 min read
How can greenery transform tropical cities? What role does economic valuation play in sustainable urban planning?
The Resilient and Inclusive Cities Lab is excited to share our latest publication, spearheaded by Dr. Emma Ramsay, Wang Yuan and Asst. Prof Perrine Hamel, a new research that unlocks urban cooling with vegetation! The paper, titled "Assessing a decision-support tool to estimate the cooling potential and economic savings from urban vegetation in Singapore" focuses on how urban vegetation mitigates heat and delivers economic benefits in tropical cities like Singapore. The study uses the flagship InVEST Urban Cooling model to estimate temperature reductions and economic savings.
Key Highlights from the paper include:
- An accurate urban temperature estimation using observed data.
- $47.14 million SGD annual savings in energy consumption for public residential buildings.
- Development of a scalable model for other tropical cities with minimal data requirements.
Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106337
