Landscape and Sustainability by John Benson

By John Benson

This certain ebook is set panorama, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, layout and deal with landscapes at many scales and in lots of destinations; city, suburban and rural. regardless of the ubiquity of 'sustainability' as an idea, this is often the 1st ebook to deal with the connection among panorama structure and sustainability in a accomplished way.Much within the booklet is underpinned via panorama ecology, unlike the belief of panorama as merely attractive to the attention or aspiring cerebrally to be advantageous artwork. As this publication argues, panorama is and has to be even more than this; panorama structure is ready making areas that are biologically healthy, socially simply and spiritually profitable.

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Sustainable thinking extends the scope of this conception, so that we must consider not only the inequalities which presently exist between the rich nations of the North and the poor nations of the South, but also the distribution of resources between the present generation and generations to come. , 1989, p. 3). The analogy here is with a stock of wealth which may generate an income to support life, but which may be squandered by the present generation leading to the unjust impoverishment of future generations (see Chapter 3).

What he shows and analyses, of course, is the inherent unsustainability of the CAP, and the tentative moves towards a more sustainable development and management path using a combination of commandand-control, market-based and voluntary mechanisms. Helen Armstrong, Helen Brown and Tom Turner then move down a scale in Chapter 9 to examine Landscape Planning and City Form where they review how sustainability affects planning, management and regeneration of existing urban landscapes and townscapes designed on nonsustainable principles, touching on urban space and form, buildings, landform, vegetation, water and land use planning.

Contemporary landscape architects consider themselves to be important members of this latter group. In the light of the discussion above, we are now in a position to examine this claim. If landscape architects are environmentalists, what ethical positions do they adopt, and to what extent can the profession be said to be furthering the cause of sustainable development? 1). Their analysis is somewhat incomplete, since it does not take account of the aesthetic values which practitioners may seek to promote, nor of any obligations they may feel towards the well-being of individuals, communities or society as a whole.

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