Meet the editor

Luis Loures is a landscape architect and agronomic engineer who holds a PhD in Planning and a Post-Doc in Agronomy. Since he graduated, he has published several peer reviewed papers at national and international levels and has been a guest researcher and lecturer both at Michigan State University (USA) and at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he developed part of his PhD research. During his academic career he taught

several courses in different universities and countries mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning, and sustainability. Currently, he is a researcher both at VALORIZA and CinTurs, where he is involved in several financed research projects focusing on different investigation domains such as urban planning, landscape reclamation, urban redevelopment, and the use of urban planning as a tool for achieving sustainable development.

Contents

**Section 1**

Development *by Luis Loures*

**Section 2**

in Turkey

Example

*by Neşe Yılmaz Bakır*

*by Hu Xiaobing and Zhang Yalin*

Areas in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

*by Aroloye O. Numbere*

*and Donald G. Hodges*

*and Fadzilah Majid Cooke*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Introductory Chapter: Landscape Reclamation as a Key Factor for Sustainable

Landscape Reclamation, Processes, Techniques and Approaches **13**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 37** Making Art Involve in the Paradigm of Ecological Landscape Construction in Ancient Villages—Taking Cai Fan and Longtan Ancient Village in Taihu as an

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 89**

Project-Based Urban Renewal and Transformation of Urban Landscape

The Impact of Landscape Reclamation on Mangrove Forest and Coastal

Public Perceptions of Values Associated with Wildfire Protection at the

Coastal Landscapes of Peninsular Malaysia: The Changes and Implications

*by Jamilah Mohd Salim, Maizatul Azwa Radzi, Sheriza Mohd Razali* 

Wildland-Urban Interface: A Synthesis of National Findings *by Jason Gordon, Adam S. Willcox, A.E. Luloff, James C. Finley* 

for Their Resilience and Ecosystem Services
