How Can Green Infrastructure Help Mitigate the Effects of Urban Climate Change?

This blog post was written by Maddie Monroe as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. As humans increase in numbers and continue to use resources, natural geographic systems and the organisms that rely on them will be increasingly affected by anthropogenic effects (Douglas and James, 2015). Urban Heat Islands are one consequence of how human modification of the environment has affected climate within cities.  The heat islands are the warmer urban temperatures…

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