Approaching landscape design in a sustainable way has
implications for everyone, but especially for the landscape designer—a term
used here to include engineers, landscape architects, urban and rural planners,
horticulturalists, and garden designers. While these disciplines are rarely
what pop to mind when discussing the front lines of the environmental sciences,
they are, broadly speaking, applied sciences, and they represent a vital link
in the ability of science to impact our surroundings.
Landscape designers at all scales may need to evolve their
craft and thinking to address: