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 TopicPromoting Sustainable Urban Development: Cultivating Climate-Resilient Cities and Nurturing an Environmentally Conscious LifestyleView all 6 articles

Urban greening for climate resilient and sustainable cities: Grand challenges and opportunities

Provisionally accepted
Prashant KumarPrashant Kumar1*Jeetendra SahaniJeetendra Sahani1Karina CoradaKarina Corada2Ajit AhlawatAjit Ahlawat3Maria De Fatima AndradeMaria De Fatima Andrade4Maria AthanassiadouMaria Athanassiadou5Shi-Jie CaoShi-Jie Cao6Lisa CollinsLisa Collins1Sagnik DeySagnik Dey7SILVANA DI SABATINOSILVANA DI SABATINO8Christos H. HaliosChristos H. Halios9Felicity HarrisFelicity Harris10Colin HortonColin Horton11Luis InostrozaLuis Inostroza12Laurence JonesLaurence Jones13Thomas Rodding KjeldsenThomas Rodding Kjeldsen14Ben MccallanBen Mccallan15Aonghus McnabolaAonghus Mcnabola16Rajeev Kumar MishraRajeev Kumar Mishra17Sumit Kumar MishraSumit Kumar Mishra18Erick G Sperandio NascimentoErick G Sperandio Nascimento1Gwilym OwenGwilym Owen19Ravindra KhaiwalRavindra Khaiwal20Neyval C ReisNeyval C Reis21Veronica SoebartoVeronica Soebarto22Jannis WenkJannis Wenk23Hannah Sloan WoodHannah Sloan Wood24Runming YaoRunming Yao9
  • 1University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
  • 2University of East London, London, United Kingdom
  • 3Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
  • 4University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • 5Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
  • 6Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
  • 7Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
  • 8University of Bologna, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  • 9University of Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom
  • 10Portsmouth City Council, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 11Rugby Borough Council, Rugby, United Kingdom
  • 12Mendel University in Brno, Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
  • 13UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • 14University of Bath, Bath, England, United Kingdom
  • 15Surrey County Council, Kingston, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
  • 16RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 17Delhi Technological University, Rohini, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
  • 18National Physical Laboratory (CSIR), New Delhi, Delhi, India
  • 19Cardiff Council, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • 20Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, Haryana, India
  • 21Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil
  • 22University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  • 23Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • 24Independent Consultant, Denmark, Denmark

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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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