 Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor arias, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. To it involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes landscape design, site planning, stormwater management, erosion control, environmental restoration, parks and recreation planning, visual resource management, green infrastructure planning and provision, and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design, all at varying scales of design, planning and management. A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a landscape architect.