Water as an Ecological Factor for a Sustainable Campus Landscape

摘要

University Campuses are large entities with huge impacts on the environment and therefore on the overall urban sustainability. Water is a scarce resource worldwide and has an obvious critical situation in the Egyptian case. Water sustainability for landscape depends mainly on reduction of consumption, collection of water and recycling of water. The paper tackles the lack of care towards sustainability issues on contemporary Egyptian campuses’ design and management. The occurring initiatives are insufficient. This research aims to define a checklist for sustainable landscape measures regarding water on university campuses based on international best practice cases and literature. The study examines the state of campus landscapes in some of the contemporary campuses in Egypt and the application of sustainability criteria and measures.