Landscape architecture role in mitigating negative ... - UNU-WIDER

Landscape architecture shares the responsibility in sustainable development. Some items sets are
a useful point of departure for the derivation of climate change indicators.
i. Recognizes the important linkages between climate change and other sustainable
development issues, e.g.
• Reducing emissions from combustion of (imported) fossil fuels can increase energy
security.
• Improved disaster risk management helps to address not only climate related events
(droughts, floods,…), but also non‐climate related ones (earthquakes, volcanoes)
ii. Preserving forests to maintain natural capital and to sustain livelihoods also increases
carbon absorption
Consequently, landscape architecture play the national sets of sustainable development as basis
for global climate change, therefore other processes should be integrated as follows:
i. International processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC):
• Negotiations related to ‘measurable, reportable and verifiable’ commitments and
actions on mitigation, financing, technology and capacity‐building
• Performance indicators on technology transfer
• Reduced emissions form deforestation and forest degradation
ii. National climate strategies and action plans
iii. Progress on System of Environmental‐Economic Accounting
iv. Climate change‐related work on CSD indicators. 15
6. Recommendations:
It is small words. Climatic changes negative impacts are not limited or affect one country rather
than other. Therefore a global vision to deal with these impacts should be basic whenever we
deal with Climatic changes. Indeed, with the era of communications, Comprehensive policy
should deal with these impacts. MENA cities have limited technical resources and vision,
especially with the dramatic political changes.
Landscape Architecture chapter can play important act in reducing the adverse impacts of
climatic changes upon city urban life, which could be achieved by implementing regional policy
that integrate the efforts of MENA cities using Landscape Architecture elements.
Landscape Architecture chapter main task will emphasis upon creating regional policy with
emphasis of strategies following by action plans in pilot projects. These efforts will explore the
Landscape Architecture significant in controlling the impact of climatic changes.
Formatting the proposed Landscape Architecture Chapter in MENA cities can take the
responsibility in managing MENA cities efforts and prepare homogeneous policy between them
targeting city that can manage the efforts of in Mitigating Negative Climate Change Impacts
upon Urban Environment
Indeed, Landscape Architecture chapter responsibility in proposing comprehensive policy that
consider MENA cities resources and problems have to be sit, which technical studies and
expertise team work are needed as well. This policy has to consider three main targets to be
improved, which are: urban condition, quality of life, and standard of living
As mentioned within research context, landscape architecture branch mainly deal with major
human and city urban aspects. Its emphasis spread along in cities urban parts and extends to
include suburban and rural areas as well. The prober landscape designs that are following
suitable intend aspects and using appropriate Softscape species (minimizing water
consumption), and hardscape materials (friendly environmental material, eco‐materials,