• 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

Environment

Climate change will have a huge impact on the environment, but it is not the only issue facing landscape architects.  The security of our food supply, the safeguarding of natural resources, the generation of energy and changing methods of transportation are all environmental issues.  Biodiversity  - the great variety of life and its overlapping dependence – is fundamental to the planet surviving. 

Landscape architects have great power to make a multitude of decisions that will enhance the environment.  Many are involved working on a large scale, planning and managing huge landscapes, providing corridors for wildlife migration or reclaiming old mining or industrial sites.  Others are designing parks and gardens as essential natural habitats, and make use of their knowledge of plants and planting.

Manor Fields in Sheffield is a good illustration of landscape innovation that helps the environment.