Ecological landscape design & sustainable landscaping
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Ecospaces is a sustainable landscaping company which creates fantastic ecological landscape spaces. Our projects range from large design and build landscaping to residential gardens. With an emphasis on sustainable ethics we create outstandingly beautiful spaces at harmony with nature. Our landscaping integrates ecological relationships between landscape and urban infrastructure to enhance sustainable development.
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Sustainable Landscaping
Sustainable landscaping is the implementation of landscape strategy to mitigate environmental impacts of man made industry and development. As a relatively new concept sustainable landscaping enhances the philosophy that landscape holds the key to human sustainability on planet earth.
Conventional approaches to human development appear to render over the wild landscape halting natural processes of the environment. Sustainable landscaping recognises the value of ecosystems and their interrelationships with topography, hydrology, geology, and climate. The analysis of these systems and features gives the sustainable landscaper his palette to engineer landscapes which work with nature enhancing human’s sustainability, economy, society, wellbeing and health.
Conventional approaches to human development appear to render over the wild landscape halting natural processes of the environment. Sustainable landscaping recognises the value of ecosystems and their interrelationships with topography, hydrology, geology, and climate. The analysis of these systems and features gives the sustainable landscaper his palette to engineer landscapes which work with nature enhancing human’s sustainability, economy, society, wellbeing and health.
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The sustainable landscaping approach is to realise all landscapes and living things are a part of an ecosystem which must be kept in balance. This brings landscape to the forefront of major issues such as food production, pollution, environmental degradation, waste, energy and social cohesion.
Sustainable landscapes must facilitate all interactions between the elements of modern living harmoniously in a way which improves people’s lives. In contempory times we have found the wealthy get richer while ordinary people struggle to house and feed themselves. High density nucleated city environments fester with epidemics of problematic metal health, addiction, family breakdown, and poverty. Sustainable landscaping aims to enrich the lives of people through landscape and natural environments.
Sustainable landscapes must facilitate all interactions between the elements of modern living harmoniously in a way which improves people’s lives. In contempory times we have found the wealthy get richer while ordinary people struggle to house and feed themselves. High density nucleated city environments fester with epidemics of problematic metal health, addiction, family breakdown, and poverty. Sustainable landscaping aims to enrich the lives of people through landscape and natural environments.
Some of the earliest pioneers of sustainable landscape philosophy such as Ian Mc Harg identified the problems of high density living for human populations. In his famous book Design with Nature he analysed landscapes holistically breaking up regions into their component parts to seek landscape design solutions to day to day urban issues. Sustainable and ecological landscaping aims to not only re-model regional landscapes but to improve existing smaller urban ones.
Whether a new park or community garden in a city centre or a new wetland wildlife habitat sustainable landscaping looks to nature for ecological solutions to manmade problems. Some of the core fundamental disciplines of sustainable landscaping include:
Sustainable Urban Drainage
Educational eco and community gardens
Urban agriculture
Green Roofs
Habitat Creation
Re-wilding
Native ecological and edible planting
Agroforestry
Sustainable Urban Drainage
Educational eco and community gardens
Urban agriculture
Green Roofs
Habitat Creation
Re-wilding
Native ecological and edible planting
Agroforestry
Sustainable landscaping not only implements these disciplines to spatial scenarios it fundamentally aims to incorporate social benefits of naturalistic landscaping into human living environments. Community gardens such as allotments provide positive social interactions combining them with, physical activity and organic food production. This type of landscape development can also improve both physical and mental well being as well as a tool to encourage educational outside activities.
Sustainable landscaping can help develop the modern world into a happier greener place. Whether a large scale landscape restoration or a small, city wildlife garden sustainable landscaping brings nature back into people’s lives. Please feel free to contact Ecospaces and please visit our blog page for more articles on this subject.
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