International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

Development of a regional park for better protection and management of KerKennah's archipelago Environment (Tunisia)

  • Author:
  • Faiza Khebour Allouche, Wafa Benelgacem
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 94 to 106

*Assistant Professor, ISA - IRESA - University of Sousse, Tunisia

**Engineer of Landscape Architecture, ISA-Sousse, Tunisia

Online published on 25 March, 2015.

Abstract

The engineering of regional Parks is an important approach for sustainable development and a new one in Tunisia. This article offers a management of a regional Park in the sabkha employed as a dump area and located in Kerkennah's Archipelago. This proposal is used as the key intervening factor between public and local practice to reconciliate this area with his environment and it will create an integrated and interactive ecological and human habitat within an urban setting. Although, the idea of the proposed development involves the reconciliation of this space with its environment, taking into account the aspect of sustainable management of this particular site, four components are planned such us: an eco-museum, a sale exhibition and handicrafts center production, a halophilic garden and a water scene.

Keywords

Kerkennah's Archipelago, sabkha, environment, landscape, regional Park