Before actually into the thick of the topic, we need to understand
the need for the green roos. Perhaps some statistics will help us illustrate this.
- The rate of construction and ‘construction utilisation’ has more than tripled in developing countries in the last two decades.
- Land reclamation, has emerged as the only option of dealing with this issue. However, land reclamation is not only extremely expensive, it is also largely detrimental to the environment.[1]
As a result of increasing levels of construction projects and various man-made activities, vast landscapes have been cleared out of vegetation in the last century or so. These land areas, once teeming with vegetation and animal life that depended on it, are not converted into ‘concrete jungles’ that have no positive impact on the environment.
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