Environmental policy and landscape architecture

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Volume 18 in the CGL-Studies series, titled “Environmental Policy and Landscape Architecture,” stems from an international symposium held in Jerusalem in March 2011, organized by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture. The event explored how various aspects of landscape architecture can address environmental challenges. Key chapters include Sustainable Development and Landscaping, Environmental Policy and Local Contributions, Designing Public Open Spaces for Social Sustainability, Spatial Planning in Israel/Palestine, and Water and Soil Conservation. Authors discuss a range of topics, such as the role of religions in environmentalism, strategies for Palestinian society to tackle urban development challenges through landscape architecture, and effective soil conservation methods for agricultural sustainability in semi-arid regions. A primary goal of the symposium was to identify collaborative opportunities in environmental and landscaping efforts among Israelis, Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a region fraught with tension. The contributors are scholars from diverse fields, including landscape architecture, urban planning, technology assessment, philosophy of science, environmental communication, and ecology, representing Israel, Palestine, the USA, Norway, and Germany.