Soil 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. Soil is an essential element that is not obvious yet highly effective for a sustainable landscape. The paper tackles the lack of care towards sustainability issues on contemporary Egyptian campuses' design and management. This research aims to define a checklist for sustainable landscape measures regarding soil 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.