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Effective Use Of Water İn Landscape Architecture Education
Nur Belkayalı, Elif Ayan

Last modified: 2017-07-28

Abstract


Water is an indispensable source of life for living things, and this resource is increasingly polluted and depleted as a result of its ineffective use today. As depending global warming, the drought is increasing due to the troubles in the water cycle and the water for the future becomes a limited resource. It is therefore necessary to take essential measures at the earliest. Training and awareness-raising activities related to effective water usage are important at this point.

During the training of landscape architects who are working to ensure sustainable use of natural resources to improve people's quality of life, various courses on the importance of effective use of water in landscape studies are in the dimension of conservation, planning, design and management. The issues such as xeriscape arrangements, effective irrigation methods, proper plant selection, efficient use of water resources, evaluation of water resource at ecological dimension are some of the issues that should be considered in the landscape studies on the solution of the global warming and the drought caused by drought. The scope of this study will also try to emphasize the place and importance of landscape architects and related landscape architecture education in the solution of water stress, which is an important problem on global scale. For this purpose, the lessons and content of effective use of water in Landscape Architecture Education in Turkey and in the World have been determined. The examples applied in Turkey and in the world regarding the effective use of water have been examined and the necessary things to be done have been put forward.