3. BILGE BAS
Information acquired: 2025
BILGE BAS is an academic who published a paper in 2021 entitled Closing Water Cycles in the Built Environment through Nature-Based Solutions: The Contribution of Ve. BILGE BAS published this work as part of a team: Pearlmutter, David. Here is a description of this work: Wat,,r in the city is typically exploited in a linear process, in which most of it is polluted, treated, and discharged, during this process, valuable nutrients are lost in the treatment process instead of being cycled back and used in urban agriculture or green space. The purpose of this paper is to advance a new paradigm to close water cycles in cities via the implementation of nature-based solutions units (NBS_u), with a particular focus on building greening elements, such as green roofs (GRs) and vertical greening systems (VGS). The hypothesis is that such â€oecircular systems†can provide substantial ecosystem services and minimize environmental degradation. Our method is twofold: we first examine these systems from a life-cycle point of view, assessing not only the inputs of conventional and alternative materials, b.