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Ecoscaping is a spatial planning discipline that integrates landscape architecture and environmental science to create sustainable designs or construction. The approach of Ecoscaping is holistic and strives to respect the pre-existing materials, microenvironments , and structures (backyards, cities, campuses, etc.) in sustainable land use ...
A satellite image of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.
The Sahel region (brown), proposed Great Green Wall (green), and participating countries (white) Satellite photo of the Sahara The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel; Arabic: السور الأخضر العظيم, romanized: as-Sūr al-ʾAkhḍar al-ʿAẓīm) is a project adopted by the African Union in ...
The Sahara Forest Project aims to provide fresh water, food and renewable energy in hot, arid regions as well as re-vegetating areas of uninhabited desert. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The founding team was composed of Seawater Greenhouse Ltd, Exploration Architecture, Max Fordham Consulting Engineers and the Bellona Foundation .
A canal design focused on esthetical landscape architecture (in Stockholm, Sweden) for comparison. Landscape engineering is the application of mathematics and science to shape land and waterscapes. It can also be described as green engineering , but the design professionals best known for landscape engineering are landscape architects .
Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings through improved efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development space and the ecosystem at large. Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the ...
Reinforced earth with gabions supporting a multilane roadway Gabions as X-ray protection during customs inspection. A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
Desert greening (2 C, 22 P) E. Ecological techniques (2 C, 16 P) H. Habitat (5 C, 124 P) Habitat management equipment and methods (4 C, 48 P) I.