Ecology and ethics: landscape architecture and sustainability

Abstract

The present articles aims at analyzing the ecological dimension of the landscape in the context of the integrated and vast perspective of Landscape Architecture, which ethical vision considers the landscape both as a holistic system, living and dynamic, in constant transformation, and as a good of natural and cultural origin to be preserved. Through the thoughts of different authors we develop a reflexion on the consideration of ecology and culture as a foundation of the intervention in the contemporary landscape. In the context of the changeable dynamics typical of contemporary landscape, the intervention is based on sustainability principles, within of an ethical responsibility that seeks the long-term development of both Nature and Society.