Speaker(s): Dana Nunez Brown, ASLA, AICP, LEED AP | April Philips, FASLA | Margaret Robinson, ASLA, LEED AP

Climate change is a critical issue being addressed around the world. Landscape architects are playing a pivotal role in designing adaptations to its many impacts. This session first presents issues and adaptations from three U.S. climates: Northwest, Southwest, and Gulf Coast, followed by a panel discussion among the presenters.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn effective adaptations for water issues and impacts in each of three major regions of the country.
• Learn effective adaptations for increased temperatures and degraded air quality in three major regions of the country.
• Learn effective adaptations for biodiversity and habitat loss in each of three major regions of the country.
• Understand the different adaptation, communication, and education tools used in these regions.

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Speaker(s): Sarah Moos Thompson, ASLA | Marilyn Latta | Nicole Waguespack

Professionals working on waterfront projects face unprecedented changing conditions and are charged with addressing uncertainty and widespread habitat loss through adaptive solutions. This session, presented using stimulating graphics and data, examines varied projects testing innovative solutions for adaptation, habitat creation, and resilience as a new model for coastal development.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the efficacy, impacts, and benefits of living shorelines and supernatural shorelines.
• Explore the trends of living shoreline projects throughout the United States, and how living shorelines can enable coastal adaptation and shoreline resilience.
• Gain insight into the regulatory frameworks and funding mechanisms for living shoreline implementation. 
• Learn about new, innovative models for resilient urban coastal development and adaptation. 

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Speaker(s): Linette Straus, ASLA, SITES AP | Chris Moyles, ASLA | Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA, AIA | April Philips, FASLA

The SITES v2 Rating System - a performance-based process encourages projects to conserve water, maximize the use of precipitation, and protect water quality, with the goal always being to restore natural systems. Examine and integrate future hydrologic outcomes such as sea-level rise and create resilient designs that satisfy SITES credits.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the prerequisites and credits in Section 3: Site Design–Water and review documentation examples.
• Describe the technical requirements and calculations as well as specialist team members that may be required for fulfillment of SITES v2 water prerequisites and credits.
• Examine projects that demonstrate sustainable practices in water design and integrate climate issues such as prolonged droughts and sea-level rise.
• Learn how to integrate design choices for water and other site attributes to improve performance outcomes and plan for resiliency in the face of future climate events.

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Speaker(s): Denise Hoffman Brandt, ASLA | Signe Nielsen, FASLA | Kate Orff, ASLA | Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA, AIA

Volatile weather patterns coupled with the specter of sea-level rise present new challenges for public policy-makers, landscape architects and planners. This session reviews planning and design proposals made immediately after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 (published in Waterproofing New York) and discusses new ideas, technologies, and opportunities that have emerged since.

Learning Objectives:

• Examine current green infrastructure policy and tactics for flood mitigation such as urban plantings and coastal flood management structures.
• Learn how emerging urban data collection tools and public policy, such as zoning and new planning guidelines pertaining to flood mitigation, are influencing design and planning approaches.
• Understand diverse vantage points on management of climate impacts and concerns that go beyond flooding, such as degradation of circulation infrastructure, waste management, and loss of cultural and recreational landscapes.
• Gain insight into the forces—communities, government agencies, and private entities—that designers must negotiate to take the lead on urban planning and design projects for future cities and suburbs.

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Speaker(s): John R. Gibbs, ASLA | Stephen 'Skip' Mezger, ASLA | Todd Pitman, ASLA | Norman Yatabe, ASLA, LEED AP

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): Jacob S. Tobias, ASLA, LEED AP | Nelda Matheny | Julie Saare-Edmonds

California landscape architects are becoming experts in designing for drought conditions. As climate change increases the odds of drought in many regions of the United States and the world, lessons from California can be applied nationwide. This session presents state-of-the-art approaches from regulatory, scientific, and design perspectives.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what regulatory tools are available to advance water conservation in landscape design. Understand the limits of regulation, the process of developing regulation, stakeholder input, and compromises.
• Understand potential horticultural responses to limiting water use, including anticipating salinity from reclaimed water, anticipating a new climate regime, designing soils for water conservation, and establishing a nonirrigated landscape.
• Understand the potential to integrate systems for water conservation, including graywater and blackwater from MEP systems and advanced irrigation technologies.
• Learn lessons related to design and client expectations: the potential pitfalls of low-water and nonirrigated landscapes, the aesthetic implications, and maintenance considerations.

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Speaker(s): Kristina Hill, Assoc. ASLA | Kevin Conger, FASLA | Dilip Trivedi, PE

Sea-level rise will be one of the most challenging issues of the coming century. This panel will present the science as well as some of the innovative work being done to engage communities and policy makers about sea-level rise impacts and adaptation strategies.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the science of sea-level rise and what various prediction models are indicating.
• See how countries such as Holland, Germany, and Japan have implemented adaptation strategies and how lessons can be applied to the United States.
• Learn how large-scale projects in the U.S. are planning for sea-level rise, and how creating adaptable waterfronts is informing the design strategies.
• Learn how these issues are being communicated to stakeholders and ordinary community members in an engaging planning tool to broaden awareness and discussion of this critical topic.

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Speaker(s): Lee-Anne Milburn, FASLA | Joan Cardellino | Deborah Deets, ASLA

Addressing demands for environmental justice usually requires "greening" of our cities. Desert cities face the contradiction of providing green infrastructure without increasing water consumption. This requires innovation and reconsideration of how we define, collect, clean, and store water, and where and how it is used.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the issues relating to park poverty and providing green infrastructure in developed cities in dry climates, including policy challenges, funding, and design innovation.
• Identify a range of solutions to addressing park poverty and providing green space amenities in dry climates, and be able to articulate both their strengths and weaknesses.
• Understand the potential of linear urban corridors such as roads, channelized streams, utility corridors, transportation corridors, and excess road widths and stormwater management for the creation/design of green infrastructure.
• Understand the principles behind a “One Water” approach to solving drought issues with alternative water sources, including use of dry weather flows, stormwater, recycled water, graywater, and blackwater.

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Speaker(s): Pamela Conrad, ASLA, LEED AP | Martha Schwartz, FASLA

As humanity becomes increasingly aware of the reality of climate change, now is the time for landscape architects to unite, harness our unique expertise, and lead the charge for change. To make this contribution, we must state our position, ally with stakeholders, and begin implementing strategies that combat this challenge.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of the landscape architect’s role in addressing climate change.
• Gain insight on implementable climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies through case studies and research.
• Learn how the profession is responding to climate change.
• Explore how to set metrics for tracking climate-positive impacts on projects and practices.

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Speaker(s): April Philips, FASLA | Linette Straus, ASLA, SITES AP | Lisa Kunst Vavro, ASLA | Lisa Cowan, ASLA, SITES AP | CeCe Haydock, ASLA | David Cutter, ASLA, SITES AP | Keven Graham, FASLA

ASLA members may view this presentation for free after logging in and pay a fee for the professional development exam (1.0 PDH LA CES/HSW).

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Section 2.2, conduct a pre-design site assessment, guides the integrated design team in maximizing opportunities for optimal site performance. This section is like the spine for the project through the certification process because at this stage the team looks ahead to determine potential opportunities. It requires a detailed assessment of the site's conditions and allows the integrated team to explore options for sustainable outcomes before the design process begins.

Learning objectives:

• Understand how to map and asses existing site conditions according to the outline in the submittal documentation section.
• Identify opportunities for sustainable outcomes for the project site and how they may affect the design.
• Analyze how the pilot project examples utilized section 2.2 to map out the strategy of their project design with emphasis on particular topics.

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