Abstract
Botanical Garden (B.G) is becoming a multi-purpose garden in contrast to traditional gardens or parks. However, it’s almost absent in whole Middle East countries so far. The landscape study for this project is a necessary need at the moment to create, improve and recreate botanical gardens in Kurdistan. Hawler Botanical Garden (H.B.G), with various landscape designs involves samples of almost all known gardens of the world. However, Kurdish garden will be forwarded for the first time and scientifically will be studied. Kurdish gardens will be the guide line for any progress in this aspect. Any way throughout the present project natural Kurdistan gardens will be considered in contrast to other gardens of other parts of the world. One must refer to that, the goal of Hawler Botanical garden will be to establish a Kurdistan flora, Kurdish Garden, Kurdish national herbarium and seed bank all of which are not exist so far.
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We would like to acknowledge and thank Poznan University of Technology in Poland and Hawler Botanical Garden (H.B.G.) as well as the Government of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan for their assistance and financial support for this project.
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Kareem, K.N., Bonenberg, W., Maulood, B.K. (2019). Kurdish Garden as an Example for Middle East Botanical Garden: New Approach and Aspect. In: Charytonowicz, J., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_16
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