Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Energy and climate are the fundamental phenomenon through which all living organisms are sustained in the ecosystem. However, as a result of human curiosity to investigate the known universe man has explored various ways to harness artificial energy sources such as nuclear energy, petroleum energy, thermodynamic energy etc. These sources has wreaked havoc into our environment due to enormous amount of greenhouse gases, fumes and particulates emitted into the atmosphere which has altered the atmospheric composition thereby leading to global warming and in turn climate change. This has denied man from living in his natural habitat with comfort. Climate change has led to drought, flooding, desertification, famine, climatic discomfort and additional cost expended on heating and cooling at various seasons of the year. This research therefore is to investigate the causes, effects and possible solutions to reduce climate change and global warming using landscape architecture. Man must sustain the natural environment for the natural environment to sustain man. This research is focused on the area of landscape architecture to save energy and reduce the effect of climate change and global warming. This research has become inevitable especially now that climate change has been identified as having adverse significant implications globally especially in urban areas. So, this research has therefore examines the following areas: green roof, green infrastructure, green walls, and provision of green areas to mitigate climate change using quantitative research method.