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Environmental knowledge is also essential for residential lawn management for all people. Using fertilizer and other landscape practices can affect the soil’s nutrient, water runoff around the watersheds, water quality, and sustainability. Lawns are where the place of a landscape at the residential is managed, without homeowner knowledge of the environment leads to pollution of the soil and water. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine their habit towards lawn management on the current scenario, to identify homeowner knowledge towards lawn management and to evaluate homeowner’s level of awareness towards water sustainability. For survey topics are divided into three sections, section one is more about current knowledge and homeowner practice towards water sustainability, section two is homeowner’s level of awareness of water sustainability, and lastly, section three is about suggestions and practices for lawn management. The data collected through the questionnaire involving UniMAP lecturer and the result shows that 50% of respondents agree with the use of fertilizer or pesticide that disturbs water sustainability and 90% of respondents are conscious of it and recommend spending more on organic fertilizer than on inorganic fertilizer to support safer the lawn setting.
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Amirah, A.S.N. et al. (2021). A Study to Asses Environmental Knowledge of Homeowner Behaviors Towards Their Lawn. In: Bahari, M.S., Harun, A., Zainal Abidin, Z., Hamidon, R., Zakaria, S. (eds) Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0866-7_93
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