Perception of Green Roof as a Tool for Urban Regeneration in a Commercial Environment: The Secret Garden, Malaysia

Rahman, Syumi Rafida Abdul; Ahmad, Hamidah; Mohammad, Shahrin; Rosley, Muhamad Solehin Fitry

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.022

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“…Throughout the international body of literature, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability are widely researched at the expense of the social sustainability dimension [23]. After recognizing the lack of research, Claus and Sandra (2012) [24] converted social aspects of sustainability into quantifiable measures by undertaking a cost benefit analysis to determine the personal and social aspects within green roofs.…”

Section: Green Roof As a Sustainable Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Insight into the Commercial Viability of Green Roofs in Australia

2016

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Construction industries around the world have, in recent history, become increasingly concerned with the sustainability of building practices. Inherently, the development of the built environment results in partial or complete destruction of the natural environment. Advanced European and North American countries have turned to green roofs as a means of sustainable development. Australia, on the other hand, has yet to fully realize the potential of green roof technology. In the first case, an extensive review of green roof literature was undertaken to establish the dominant perspectives and over-riding themes within the established body of international literature. The collection of primary data took the form of qualitative, semi-structured interviews with a range of construction practitioners and green roof experts; landscape architects, consultants and academics. The information gained from the interviews facilitated the primary aim of the paper; to critically analyse the state-of-practice in the Australian green roof industry. Green roofs, despite their proven sustainability benefits and their international success, have experienced a relatively sluggish uptake in the Australian construction industry. With this being said, the Australian green roof industry is considered to have promising potential for the future; should there be legislative changes made in its favour or greater education within the industry. To advance the local industry, it was found that government authorities are required to adapt policy settings to better encourage the use of green roofs, whilst industry bodies are required to host better, more targeted educational programs.

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Section: Green Roof As a Sustainable Technologymentioning

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An Insight into the Commercial Viability of Green Roofs in Australia

2016

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“…Milestone studies including Costanza et al (1997), Costanza et al (2014) and TEEB database (http://doc.teebweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/teeb_database_teebweb.xlsx) by Van der Ploeg et al (2010) have very limited information on the values of urban ecosystems. The benefits of urban ecosystems are extended to urban heat mitigation and aesthetics contribute to social and (therefore) economic wellbeing (See Betancourth, 2011;Bhattacharya et al, 2012;De Oliveira, 2014;Kazmierczak & Carter, 2010;Rahman et al, 2015). We had previously shown a reluctance by common people to invest directly in ecosystem-based (green) adaptation responses by increasing urban green and blue spaces in Dhaka (Zinia & McShane, In press).…”

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Significance of Urban Green and Blue Spaces: Identifying and Valuing Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Dhaka City

Zinia¹,

McShane²

2018

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We evaluated urban ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city exposed to increasing urban congestion, air and water pollution, and climate change (particularly extreme weather events). Ecosystem services were evaluated from field-level observation, household surveys, in-depth interviews with experts and local citizens and literature review methods. Data analysis approaches included analysis of ecosystem services and market-price based valuation. The provisioning services provided by the household gardens (particularly rooftop gardens) offered direct economic benefits measurable as the production/value of goods (fruits and vegetables). The benefits to residents could exceed direct economic metrics to regulating services as urban vegetation can act to mitigate extreme heat encountered during the summer months. Our study quantified provisioning services provided by urban ecosystems including rooftop gardens, parks, and waterbodies. The selected urban ecosystems generated BDT 5.3 million (USD 68,465) worth services in 2016. The results of our research are expected influence citizens and policy makers for sustainable urban ecosystem management in Dhaka and similar climate-and population-exposed cities.

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“…The study by Rahman et al (2014) found that most of the urban dwellers are aware of the development of green roof in Malaysia. Thus the exploitation of green roof can be developed to be rooftop urban farming.…”

Section: The Prospect Of Rooftop Urban Farming In Malaysiamentioning

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Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

Hussain¹,

Hashim²,

Ismail³

2020

MySE

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The emergence of urban farming mainly for food production is one initiative in developing a sustainable environment. This paper presents a brief conceptual review of the ideas, issues and imperatives in implementing urban farming on the rooftop areas. The concern is to investigate an alternative way for urban dwellers to achieve resilience through urban farming -the review is based on the theoretical background and concepts of the relevant constraints taken from various established references. The method adopts comparatives analysis explicitly through established texts and secondary data taken from previous cases. The significant examples include; (i) green roof as rooftop farming in ensuring food security and reduce carbon footprint in Singapore; (ii) urban farming as a culture in emphasizing the domestic food production and consumption in Japan; (iii) rooftop urban farming in fresh urban food production in USA; and (iv) rooftop is effective as edible landscape and not only serve for visual purpose only in Thailand. These cases will lead to localize the concept of rooftop urban farming. There also will be a strategy for the greening of the cities by intensifying urban farming. This paper envisions to extend and establish the conceptual discourse for implementing urban farming on the rooftop areas in Malaysia.

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Perception of Green Roof as a Tool for Urban Regeneration in a Commercial Environment: The Secret Garden, Malaysia

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

An Insight into the Commercial Viability of Green Roofs in Australia

An Insight into the Commercial Viability of Green Roofs in Australia

Significance of Urban Green and Blue Spaces: Identifying and Valuing Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Dhaka City

Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

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