Browsing by Author "Feisal, Zeinab"

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MULTIFUNCTION GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Towards upgrading urban ecosystem in Cairo
(Research Gate, 2017) Feisal, Zeinab; Haron, Ahmed
Attention to green infrastructure and urban ecosystem is a result of needs for upgrading of ecological environment and social life of the city. Urban ecosystems are complicated and overlapping with other systems, such as economic, social and human activities that may cause conflict and negative/positive impact according to the nature of activity. Multifunction green infrastructure is an effective approach for enriching urban ecosystem. Green infrastructure leads to adaptation and even transformation of future and faces challenges such as climate change, food insecurity and limited resources . Cairo ecosystem faces a lot of challenges that may affect the urban, cultural, heritage, economic and environmental aspects of one of the oldest capitals of the world. Biodiversity in Cairo is a key element could help in implementation of Multifunction green infrastructure strategy despite of all culture and awareness challenges . The research methodology is divided into a theoretical review that discusses main concepts related to Green infrastructure such as: Landscape Sustainability, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Services, Multifunctional Landscape, Urban Green space, Green infrastructure and a field study conducted by the author upon which the action plan was based.
Relationship between Community and nature in the Egyptian villages
(Research Gate, 2012) Wang, Xiangrong; Haron, Ahmed; Feisal, Zeinab
The relationship between man and nature since the dawn of history embodied in the first agricultural community in the valley of the Nile in Egypt, which is one of the early societies that were formed and connected to nature. This community has been affected and influenced this nature to form one of the great civilizations over history. This relationship has continued in this valley to evolve towns, villages, countries and different communities and the key factors of these communities were water and greenery . In recent times as a result of social, cultural and urban changes, this distinctive relationship face a set of challenges and problems that may affect the natural environment where it began migration from rural to urban areas and the collapse of the traditional concept of farming so that the urban population in Egypt could reach from 40% in 2010 to 60% in 2030, threatening the agricultural environment. Facing main reasons like the cultures of social change to rural communities in Egypt and the lack of scientific development environment may help these communities to survive and extent. Egyptian lakes have social and environmental mixture which mixing between farmers, fishers and Bedouins. These various societies and different cultures live together surrounding Egyptian lakes that give these sites very special character. Villages surrounding lakes are contorted with number of problems such as accommodations, rapidly growing populations, unemployment, lack of education and lack of environmental awareness. The research presents the problem of these communities surrounding Egyptian lakes and the development of methods and environmental performance of these urban communities in line with the challenges of recent time. The aim of this paper is to formulate a conceptual framework to achieve the harmony between Urban, community and surrounding nature in Egyptian villages. Through an interdisciplinary literature review the concepts of green and social infrastructure. Finally, based on a synthesis of the literature a conceptual framework is presented.