Professor Meryem Atik is a full time lecturer and researcher at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Akdeniz, Antalya Turkey. Her works focuses on landscape character analysis, cultural landscapes, rural landscapes, assessment methodologies of multiple relationship between culture and landscape as well as natural landscapes, native plants, tourism and environment relations. She is the co-author of 10 English book chapters and the editor of Akdeniz University Journal of the Faculty of Architecture