**Overview on Grass Topic**

cies of the Family Poaceae in Chile: Taxonomy, Distribution and Conservation', explains how endemic species with a geographic distribution are restricted to a single area and could be especially vulnerable. The third chapter, 'Beyond Turf and Lawn: Poaceae in This Age of Climate Change', debates the traditional uses of Poaceae in various cultures, where many unrealized needs for food, medicine and other material goods could be met elsewhere with

Section 4, 'Applied Circumstance of Grass Categories', is divided into two chapters. The first, 'Lemon Grass (*Cymbopogon citratus*)', debates lemongrass citral, which is an essential oil with therapeutic and many other useful effects. The second, 'Vetiver Grass: A Tool for Sus‐ tainable Agriculture', debates several applications of vetiver grass, its impacts and resultant benefits as a technology that could enhance sustainable agricultural development. Soil con‐ servation, amendment and stabilisation are the main areas discussed in this chapter, along

Many propositions, items and significant factors are combined in this book. A current objec‐ tive of our world is to make the use of green areas more practical and environmentally friendly. Today, the practice is to establish a competent way to use grasses in their original form, starting from their use as food or medical matter to an efficient establishment of grasses in biophilic design in our architectural and city arrangements. This book makes available the theoretical basis and practical application of how a broad usage of grasses can be replicated in our life based on practical ways to give worked-out examples of such prob‐ lems regarding applied usage. I must acknowledge that it has been a rare pleasure for me to be an editor associated with InTechOpen Publisher. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ms. Maja Bozicevic, InTech's Publishing Process Manager, and I shall avail this chance to extend my sincere gratitude for her help and cooperation at various phases of the publication process, as well as the researchers who performed experiments and reported

**Associate Professor Dr. Arch. Amjad Almusaed**

Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture

**Assistant Professor Sammera Mohamed Salih Al-Samaraee**

University of Basra

University of Basra

Basra, Iraq

Basra, Iraq

knowledge transfer.

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with crop productivity.

their findings.

**Chapter 1**

**Provisional chapter**

**Introductory Chapter: Overview on Grass Topic**

**Introductory Chapter: Overview on Grass Topic**

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A regulate analysis of the connotation of the word "environment" in the sustainability explains clear circumstances of a being or thing (social, economic, and physical). Moreover, the meaning covers the systematization of the environment upon the physical process. The environment in a broad sense also contains all the natural and artificial factors of the physical, chemical, biological, and social nature in which a human being is a factor motor of community that develops. The importance of maintaining a steady state, the human relationship, and its living environment requires an ability to control the environment in an optimal arrangement of ecological balance. For creating a competent urban zoning, it is necessary to state that green areas in general and grass in special require a delimitation based on a unitary structure of territory structure organized. It has to be created by successive stages (valuable parts), which in the functional aspect consists of areas characteristic of the dominant aspect, the weight of one of the functions, or a greater diversity of the functions, mono-functional multifunctional space [1]. Grasses in the planted area (as a functional urban area) are shaped to serve the specific areas for beauty or recreational purpose. The grasslands have an esthetic

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The grasses are the most valuable horizontal green plan. The family itself is the source of the grains that are the stuff of life for most of the humankind. The beauty of grasses is quite different from another planting area [2]. The simplest definition of "the grassland" represents an area of land covered by herbaceous vegetation, consisting mainly of grasses, which is subject to care work and is designed to perform certain decorative, recreational, or sanitary functions. The lawn is the main fund of green space (75–80% of the area; rocks, shrubs, floral arrangements, and massive trees) or naevi (rocks, statuary groups, architectural

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function, which can be presented by

• An essential element to highlight architectural objects

• A significant decorative value (by shape or color)

Amjad Almusaed

**1. Introduction**

Amjad Almusaed

**Provisional chapter**
