The Rise of Rooftop Urban Farming at George Town, Penang
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i7.1242Keywords:
Urban Faming, Rooftop, George Town, Penang, Highrise ResidentialAbstract
Urban farming is growing in popularity for taking advantage of unused spaces on the rooftop in cities. This issue is becoming fundamentals due to the scarcity of land issue, urbanisation and urban poverty. This paper presents a brief method used in exploring the potential of implementing urban farming on the rooftop areas. The research aims to measure the potential of the rooftop as urban farming at George Town, Penang. This study adopted quantitative method using the questionnaire to conduct a survey. The result shows significant findings of reliability test of Cronbach's Alpha.
References
Asmat, I., Samad, M.H.A., Rahman, A.M.A., (2011). The Investigation Of Green Roof And White Roof Cooling Potential On Single Storey Residential Building In The Malaysian Climate.
FAO,. (2007). Profitability and Sustainability of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture; Agricultural Management Marketing and Finance Occasional Paper, by Veenhuizen, R.V., & Danso, G., Rome.Italy
Geo Portal (2016). Unique Parcel Identifier (UPI). Retrieved May 7, 2016, from http://myliis3.mygeoportal.gov.my/upi/
Giraldo, D.P., (2008). Food security in development countries : a systematic perspectives. In International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Kortright, R. (2001). Evaluating the potential of green roof agriculture. Published by city farmer, Canada's office of urban agriculture. October. Urban agriculture notes. Retrieved Feb 17, 2016, from http://www.cityfarmer.org/greenpotential.html
Nur Hayati. H., Nur Huzeima, M.H., Asmat, I., (2016). Understanding The Concept Of Green Roof As Urban Farming: A Comparative Study. In International Conference on Sustainable Development and Livelihoods.
Rasmuna, M. M., & Rashid, M. R. (2015). The Potential of Urban Farming Technology in Malaysia : Policy Intervention.
RUAF. (2007). Profitability and Sustainability of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture; Agricultural Management Marketing and Finance Occasional Paper, by Veenhuizen, R.V., & Danso, G., Rome.Italy.
Sanyé-Mengual, E. (2015). Sustainability assessment of urban rooftop farming using an interdisciplinary approach (Doctoral thesis), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Brazil.
Tarmiji, M., Yaakob, U., Ayob, N. M., & Mokhtar, A. S. (2012). Population and spatial distribution of urbanisation in Peninsular. Malaysia Journal of Society and Space, 2(2), 20–29.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Nur Hayati Hashim, Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain, Asmat Ismail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
