Climate Change and the Quad: Resiliency as Catalysts to Building Campus Landscape - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Description

Three campus landscape architects from major public institutions will share current guiding policy and sustainable design progress in response to climate change. In a moderated format, their stories will highlight successes, challenges, and the surprising opportunities that resiliency planning offers to the design and management of campus landscapes.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the nexus between global climate change and resiliency in campus landscapes. 
• Learn about tools that address the challenges of building resilient campus landscapes including creating identity, sustainable planning, and sources of funding.
• Learn about integrating resilient principles into current campus landscape planning practices.
• Discuss how campus landscape architects use metrics and data to advocate for more holistic campus planning. 

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Speaker(s):

• John R. Gibbs, ASLA, Principal, WRT, LLC
• Stephen 'Skip' Mezger, ASLA, University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
• Todd Pitman, ASLA, Assistant Director Campus Planning and Campus Landscape Architect, University of California, San Diego
• Norman Yatabe, ASLA, LEED AP, Arizona State University