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SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article
Front. Sustain. Cities
Sec. Climate Change and Cities
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frsc.2025.1595280
This article is part of the Research Topic Promoting Sustainable Urban Development: Cultivating Climate-Resilient Cities and Nurturing an Environmentally Conscious Lifestyle View all 6 articles
Urban greening for climate resilient and sustainable cities: Grand challenges and opportunities
Provisionally accepted
Prashant Kumar 1*
Jeetendra Sahani 1
Karina Corada 2 Ajit Ahlawat 3
Maria De Fatima Andrade 4
Maria Athanassiadou 5
Shi-Jie Cao 6 Lisa Collins 1
Sagnik Dey 7
SILVANA DI SABATINO 8
Christos H. Halios 9 Felicity Harris 10 Colin Horton 11 Luis Inostroza 12 Laurence Jones 13 Thomas Rodding Kjeldsen 14 Ben Mccallan 15 Aonghus Mcnabola 16 Rajeev Kumar Mishra 17 Sumit Kumar Mishra 18 Erick G Sperandio Nascimento 1 Gwilym Owen 19
Ravindra Khaiwal 20 Neyval C Reis 21
Veronica Soebarto 22
Jannis Wenk 23 Hannah Sloan Wood 24 Runming Yao 9- 1 University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
- 2 University of East London, London, United Kingdom
- 3 Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- 4 University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- 5 Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- 6 Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
- 7 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
- 8 University of Bologna, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- 9 University of Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom
- 10 Portsmouth City Council, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- 11 Rugby Borough Council, Rugby, United Kingdom
- 12 Mendel University in Brno, Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
- 13 UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- 14 University of Bath, Bath, England, United Kingdom
- 15 Surrey County Council, Kingston, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- 16 RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 17 Delhi Technological University, Rohini, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
- 18 National Physical Laboratory (CSIR), New Delhi, Delhi, India
- 19 Cardiff Council, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- 20 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, Haryana, India
- 21 Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil
- 22 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- 23 Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- 24 Independent Consultant, Denmark, Denmark
Please see the attached manuscript.
Keywords: Urban greening, climate adaptation, UN SDGs, green infrastructure, Strategic urban planning
Received: 17 Mar 2025; Accepted: 31 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kumar, Sahani, Corada, Ahlawat, Andrade, Athanassiadou, Cao, Collins, Dey, DI SABATINO, Halios, Harris, Horton, Inostroza, Jones, Rodding Kjeldsen, Mccallan, Mcnabola, Kumar Mishra, Kumar Mishra, Sperandio Nascimento, Owen, Khaiwal, Reis, Soebarto, Wenk, Wood and Yao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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