Assessment of plant materials carbon sequestration rate for horizontal and vertical landscape design
The excessive reliance of fossil fuels and carbon production from daily appliances especially in tourism accommodation premises could cause detrimental impact to the surrounding environment. This is due to the increase of carbon emissions which is one of the major contributors for greenhouse ef...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IACSIT Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/45771/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45771/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45771/1/PAPER_1.pdf |
| Summary: | The excessive reliance of fossil fuels and carbon
production from daily appliances especially in tourism
accommodation premises could cause detrimental impact to the
surrounding environment. This is due to the increase of carbon
emissions which is one of the major contributors for greenhouse
effect especially in urban area. In order to alleviate the carbon
footprint by those premises, one of the promising method to
reduce carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere is by selecting
an appropriate plant species as well as optimization of spatial
organization of plant materials. Besides character of the plant
materials, criteria such as locality, age, diameter and height are
very much influenced the carbon sequestration rate. This study
demonstrate that even with limited green space areas for
tourism accommodation premises such as hotels and resorts, the
carbon sequestration rate can be further increased with the
right selection of plants, at the right place with the right
landscape design. Therefore this study aimed to monitor,
calculate and predict how much carbon can be absorbed by
proposed plant species based on vertical and horizontal
landscape design at certain period of time. The significance
outcomes of this study will be green approach to monitor and
sequester carbon toxicity using plant species also a novel
landscape design approach to neutralize carbon emission which
is cost effective and environmental friendly. |
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