• History and Ideas
  • Prehistory to Middle Ages
  • Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment
  • 19th Century
  • 20th Century
  • From Millennium to Olympics
• The Genius of Place
  • Design and Vision
  • Planning the Landscape
  • Management and Conservation
  • Historic Conservation
  • The Science of Landscape
  • Cities and Towns
  • Gardens and Parks
• The Power to Change
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Environment
  • Housing
  • Hunger
  • Transportation

Climate Change

Landscape architects are tackling climate change.  Climate change affects water systems, weather and temperatures as well as animal and plant species.  Dealing with these issues locally can have a great influence on the larger effects of climate change as well. 

Climate change will have profound impacts on every area of our society, environmentally, socially and economically.  In order to solve the problems it creates, we need people who can see the big picture – and landscape architects are just such people.

Boscastle in Cornwall was nearly destroyed by flooding in 2004, possibly linked to climate change, and landscape architects have worked to solve its problems and protect it in the future.