Boomsma, Reinder (2022) Stimulating the application of green roofs; a case study in Leeuwarden. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Climate Adaptation Governance (CAG).
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Abstract
An increasing number of people will experience climate impacts in cities. Green roofs can be regarded as a nature-based solution in cities to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Green roofs contribute to overall sustainability as they offer public ecosystem services such as mitigating heat effects, enhancing biodiversity, and contributing to a better air quality. Other benefits are rainwater storage, better isolation, aesthetics, noise reduction, and roof life prolongment. Although subsidies on green roofs are available in the Netherlands, implementation is not going very rapidly. In the city of Leeuwarden green roof application could also be improved in the light of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Therefore, this thesis aims to help understand the current situation of green roof application in the city of Leeuwarden, and to provide recommendations to stimulate this application. Literature is studied to get insight into enabling or hindering factors regarding green roof application. Data by the municipality on green roof subsidy applications are used to make an analysis on neighborhood level. Also, based on a spatial analysis in QGIS, potential areas are pointed out in which green roofs have potentially the most effect in the city. Furthermore, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted to identify the different views of actors regarding green roof implementation. These actors consist of the municipality, an expert, a gardener, entrepreneurs, and inhabitants. Ten recommendations are provided to stimulate green roof application in Leeuwarden. These recommendations consist among others of: the municipality should apply green roofs or other greenery to the public spaces wherever it is possible, subsidies need to be tailored to the inhabitants of the city, greenery needs to be mandatory in new building projects, publicity regarding green roofs should increase, negative environmental impacts should be minimized, and the municipality should collaborate with experts, housing associations, local greenery studies, and gardening companies to develop policy and to increase the share of green roofs.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Schulz, K.A. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2022 11:57 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2022 11:57 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/190 |
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