Meet the editors

Luís Loures, Ph.D., is a landscape architect and agronomic engineer, and vice president of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal. He has a Ph.D. in Planning and a postdoctorate degree in Agronomy. He is also a researcher at VALORIZA – Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, and CinTurs – Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability, and Well-being. At the latter, Dr. Loures

is a researcher on several financed research projects focusing on urban planning, landscape reclamation, and urban redevelopment, and the use of urban planning as a tool for achieving sustainable development.

Mustafa Ergen graduated from the Department of Landscape Architecture, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey, in 2000. In 2005, he completed his first master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey, and his second master's degree in Landscape Architecture at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, in 2006. During 2007–2008, he studied Geographic Information Systems and Re-

mote Sensing at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece, and was granted a specialization diploma in Environmental Management. He also received a Dr. Eng. from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. Currently, he works in the Department of Architecture, Siirt University, Turkey.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Luís Loures*

*by Krishna Rani Barai*

*by Mustafa Ergen*

**Section 3**

*by Funmilayo M. Adedire*

of the Green Areas in Tokat, Turkey

**Section 2**

of Sustainable Development

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Landscape Change: Uses and Services **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 47**

Landscape Sustainability: Methods and Practices **61**

**Chapter 6 63**

Introductory Chapter: Landscape Architecture - The Gatekeeper

Land Uses Allocation: The Execution of an Artificial Beach and Its Complementary Infrastructures – Madeira Island – Machico, Portugal

Frequent Change of Land-Use Pattern and Its Effect on Ecology and Ecosystem in the South-West Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Using the Buffer Zone Method to Measure the Accessibility

Disparity in Peri-Urbanisation Process in Lagos, Nigeria

Landscape Hazards: Destructive Build Environment Zones

*by Yoichi Kunii, Paige O'Keefe, Jon Burley, Luis Loures* 

and Safe Areas - An American Case Study

*and Marifaye Regina Villanueva*

*by Sérgio Lousada, Luís Loures and Rui Alexandre Castanho*
