DESIGN AND IMPORTANCE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN ROOFS: CASE STUDY OF NIŠ

<p>Green roof is one of the elements of green infrastructure to compensate for the loss of green areas in urban areas, due to increasingly intensive urbanization and the need to build on existing undeveloped areas. There are different types of green roofs, from extensive to intensive, which differ in the type of vegetation planted on them, access options, functions that can be performed on them, etc. They play an important role in preventing and mitigating the negative impacts of climate change, as well as the occurrence of heat islands in the most populated urban areas. Their implementation was common in the world at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, however, Serbia is only at the beginning of the development of this modern practice. The paper lists the characteristics of green roofs, their types and methods of application. The paper focuses on a case study in the city of Niš, on researching their implementation.</p>