Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 the appropriate answer unless stated otherwise.. 1 being the lowest grade and 5 the highest grade you may give. If you do not know an ansear please write " Do Not Know"My interest in landscape architecture started after I took a PC Design course and became a certified pc practitioner. The formal education is rather a tool for me to be able to practice permaculture at the larger scale and hopefully contribute to the positive change.
A: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND PERMACULTURE:
1. Is any member of your practice registered as a member of a permaculture organisation? Please delete all the inappropriate answears.
Yes
Comments:
2. As landscape architect practice, where have you come across the permaculture concept?
Other. Please, specify.
3. In your general opinion, do you recognise that landscape architects are applying permaculture concepts under another names such as regenerative studies, sustainable projects and so on?
Answer
4. Does your practice think that permaculture could be suited to?
Landscape architecture (5)
Agriculture(5)
Urban Design(5) needs more research and work
Architecture(5)
Others. Please, specify - civil engineering ( drainage issues, highway design and siting)
5. What would be needed for a landscape architecture practices to become more aware of the benefits of planning and practices using permaculture concept?
More education5
Stricter legislation5
More government commitment0 (what is that?)
More public and client awarenessdon't know
Efficient implementation5
Others. Please specify
B: PERMACULTURE
6. A permaculture approach within the landscape could provide a range of benefits. How important does your practice believe each benefit to be?
Ecological/ environmental benefits:
. Increase wildlife value5
. Supply basic agriculture needs5
. Increase biodiversity5
. Increase environmental quality5
. Enhance microclimate5
. Others. Please specify:5
Comments: You use a traditional method of research, when a subject is divided in components, and each one is studied or evaluated separatly. Majority of the above mentioned benefits are interwoven, and do not need to be listed separatly. Microclimate and environmental qulaity go hand in hand, so does the diversity with env. quality and wildlife habitat.
Economic benefits:I don't know if the landscape architecture use of pc will actually provide these benefits. The befits that I see could be such as:
. Improve image of the locality
. Encourage private sector investment
. Others. Please specify:
Comments:
Social benefits:
. Provide satisfying living/ working area5
. Provide educational resource5
. Provide good survey/ analysis?
. Promote physical healthiness? The first Forest garden was created for a handicapped person in GB. What do you mean?
. Promote good mental health?
. Encourage local participation/ Maintenancequestionable
. Others. Please specify
Aesthetic benefits:
. Provide an innovative design5
. Give a greater creativity5
. Provide a natural beauty5
. Relate function to aesthetic5
. Others. Please specify
7. Which of the following should pay for a permaculture approach to be used within the landscape projects?
Supra National bodies (e.g. European Union)
National Governmentcan only srew the thing
State/ regional authorities
Local authorities5
Other Public bodies5
Private business sector
Specialist Groups (e.g. Groundwork trust)5
Local amenity Group
Local residents ( Residents association)5
General public via taxation
Others. Please, specify
C: CONSTRAINTS:
8. In your practice experience, by how much do the following constraints restrict the establishment of permaculture projects?
Financial (e.g. too expensive to be installed)0
Impractical (e.g. requires too much labour attention)0
Lack of knowledge0
Lack of guidance5
Inappropriate locality0
Traditional method0
Others. Please, specify
Comments: the pc sites do need maintanance and love. The responsibility of a pc designer that is often too hard to bear is to educate your client, or stay near the project untill it is stable and mature. The last element makes the costs prohibitive, when first is met with resintance by many clients. They just want a pretty landscape after all, and preferably with no erosion. Working on it for 7 years - no thanks. So people find different ways of solving this problem, but neither is simple or time efficient.
9. By how much will landscape projects containing a permaculture approach create negative effects?
Reduces profitability of land0 ( how is that possible?)
Increases maintenance cost- 2 (only initially, but returns over time.)
Creates spaces vulnerable to crime? ( every public space is vulnerable for that matter)
Reduces building/ indoor activity0
Increase demand for more land0
Others. Please, specify
Comments:
10. Which of the following groups in your practice opinion are more likely to be opposed to landscape permacultural projects?
Local residents0 (unless uniformed)
Local Business people0
General public0
Land owners0
Developers/ Builders5 (unless can get points out of it)
Local authorities3 (dislike innovative ideas, as it makes them have to think, example: straw bale houses)
National governments5 (oppose anything good)
Specialist Groups/ organisations3
Others. Please, specifycivil engineers
Could you please, refer me to any other useful contacts I could interview or e-mail?
YesNo If yes, please, specify e-mail and phone number <gilnel@earthlink.net>, Ann Nelson, LA
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