ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author addresses pressing concerns that he believes will enliven the profession of landscape architecture towards working more rigorously with contemporary issues. A key question permeating this book has been how landscape architecture might embrace knowledge from ecological science and other disciplines. Ecological science has moved enormously in the last few decades to embrace biotic instability, flux, diversity, disequilibrium, open systems, nonlinear pathways and relationships, human desire and perception, and shifts in responses with time, holism, and harmony between biotic and natural abiotic processes. In these essays the author's focus has been to boost the role of ecological science in decision-making and knowledge transmission, the legacies of differences in regions in spectrums of responses and shifting continuities, etc. Hence, the author has hoped to point to a more positive future for which we must work with all the knowledge and inquiry at our disposal, wherever that critical knowledge might lie.
