Building integrated agriculture utilising rooftops for sustainable food crop cultivation in Singapore

Journal of Green Building

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-113

  Astee, Lim Yinghui ^a   Kishnani, Nirmal T ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Building integrated agriculture; Carbon footprint; Food security; Public housing; Rooftop farming; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957336046     PISSN: 15526100     EISSN: 19434618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3992/jgb.5.2.105     Document Type: Article

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