Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate

Urban parks varies in size ranging from 400 to 30 000 hectares all over the world and one thing in common they possessed is that urban trees play an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Calculation of carbon (C) stored and seque...

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Main Authors:	Othman, Rashidi, Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina, Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun, Yaman, Maheran, Abdullah, Fadzidah, Suid, Suhaili
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Language:	English English
Published:	Medwell Journals 2016
Subjects:	GE Environmental Sciences NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany SB Plant culture
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spelling	iium-543952017-10-10T10:23:21Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54395/ Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate Othman, Rashidi Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun Yaman, Maheran Abdullah, Fadzidah Suid, Suhaili GE Environmental Sciences NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany SB Plant culture Urban parks varies in size ranging from 400 to 30 000 hectares all over the world and one thing in common they possessed is that urban trees play an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Calculation of carbon (C) stored and sequestered by urban trees is the actual and critical assessment of the real potential role of an urban park in reducing atmospheric CO2. This paper provides a case study of the quantification of C storage and sequestration by two urban parks with two different landscape setting design in Subang Jaya and Damansara, a rapidly urbanized and populated city in west coast of Malaysia. The C storage or sequestration rate was estimated by biomass equations, using field inventory and analysis survey data. The calculation of biomass provides reasonably accurate estimation of the amount of carbon that was sequestered from trees over the years. Our findings revealed that different landscape setting design contribute to marked differences in carbon stored. Curvilinear landscape setting design was found to sequester more carbon compared to informal landscape setting even though total green and built up areas for both sites are similar. These findings provide insights and better understanding of the role of urban park as carbon sink. Medwell Journals 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54395/1/54395_Assessment%20of%20Urban%20Park%20Landscape%20Setting.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54395/2/54395_Assessment%20of%20Urban%20Park%20Landscape%20Setting_SCOPUS.pdf Othman, Rashidi and Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina and Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun and Yaman, Maheran and Abdullah, Fadzidah and Suid, Suhaili (2016) Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate. The Social Sciences, 11 (20). pp. 4918-4923. ISSN 1818-5800 http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/medwelljournals/sscience/2016/4918-4923.pdf 10.3923/sscience.2016.4918.4923
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spellingShingle	GE Environmental Sciences NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany SB Plant culture Othman, Rashidi Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun Yaman, Maheran Abdullah, Fadzidah Suid, Suhaili Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
description	Urban parks varies in size ranging from 400 to 30 000 hectares all over the world and one thing in common they possessed is that urban trees play an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Calculation of carbon (C) stored and sequestered by urban trees is the actual and critical assessment of the real potential role of an urban park in reducing atmospheric CO2. This paper provides a case study of the quantification of C storage and sequestration by two urban parks with two different landscape setting design in Subang Jaya and Damansara, a rapidly urbanized and populated city in west coast of Malaysia. The C storage or sequestration rate was estimated by biomass equations, using field inventory and analysis survey data. The calculation of biomass provides reasonably accurate estimation of the amount of carbon that was sequestered from trees over the years. Our findings revealed that different landscape setting design contribute to marked differences in carbon stored. Curvilinear landscape setting design was found to sequester more carbon compared to informal landscape setting even though total green and built up areas for both sites are similar. These findings provide insights and better understanding of the role of urban park as carbon sink.
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author	Othman, Rashidi Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun Yaman, Maheran Abdullah, Fadzidah Suid, Suhaili
author_facet	Othman, Rashidi Mohd Noor, Nur Fadhlina Hashim, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun Yaman, Maheran Abdullah, Fadzidah Suid, Suhaili
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title	Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
title_short	Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
title_full	Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
title_fullStr	Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
title_sort	assessment of urban park landscape setting design towards carbon sequestration rate
publisher	Medwell Journals
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