CSLA Resource Library

Welcome to the CSLA Resource Library! Explore a wide range of landscape architecture-related research, reports, tools, videos and more—searchable by keyword, topic or type.

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Cripping Climate Adaptation

2025 – White Paper

Prairie Climate Centre

Disability Justice and Climate Change. Because of multiple intersecting factors, people with disabilities are more vulnerable to the health effects of climate change and could be disproportionately impacted during extreme weather events. Inequalities exacerbated by climate change could be addressed and prevented, by ensuring a full and effective participation of disabled persons in climate action at all levels. This report by the Prairie Climate Centre conveys the perspectives on Disability Justice at the intersection of climate change, as expressed by participants at the event: Cripping Climate Adaptation.

CSLA Guide to Land Acknowledgements

2023 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC

This CSLA's Guide to Land Acknowledgements is intended to offer baseline information to guide members and friends of the CSLA as they embark on developing a land acknowledgement. It is not to be viewed as a standardized checklist; rather, it provides the important considerations you will need to understand as you develop a meaningful land acknowledgement.

CSLA Statement on Reconciliation and the Profession of Landscape Architecture

2020 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC

The statement is based on input gathered from an environmental scan of CSLA provincial, regional and territorial component associations, universities, related professional associations, Indigenous organizations and practitioners, and CSLA members. The CSLA acknowledges and appreciates the invaluable contributions provided by the RAC and member volunteers who participated in the environmental scan research. 

Dealing with Microaggressions in the Workplace | Darcie Young

2025 – Webinar

CSLA/AAPC

This presentation covers:

What are microaggressions vs macroaggressions
What is workplace conflict
How these feed conflict in the workplace
Intention vs Impact
Why/how/when to address microaggressions as the target, offender, or bystander

Decarbonizing Specifications - Guidelines for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Contractors

2024 – Tool

ASLA

The goal of these guidelines is to make it easier for landscape architects to more effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions from project design and construction. Sections cover seven key design principles and 18 areas of specification. These guidelines are written for landscape architects and designers, specifiers, contractors, manufacturers, and leaders in our discipline and industry who want to cut emissions and increase carbon sequestration faster. They are thematic and condensed to provide a “CliffsNotes” overview of best practices.

Decarbonizing the Design Process - A Phase by Phase Approach for Landscape Architects

2024 – Tool

ASLA

This guide offers a phase-by-phase structure to decarbonize design through big ideas, strategies, and best practices. It is high-level, offering approaches that can be implemented regardless of project type, scope, and scale. The guide offers decarbonization opportunities for: Project kickoff, Schematic design, Design development, Construction documents, Construction administration, Operations and maintenance 

Find a Native Plant Nursery

2024 – Tool

Network of Nature

Use this interactive web map to find nurseries and stores specializing in native plants across Canada. This web map is created and maintained by Network of Nature developers and volunteers. This map was last updated to the best of our abilities in early 2024. 

From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada

2024 – White Paper

Yellowhead Institute

Canada’s current provincial and national risk assessment frameworks focus predominantly on the built environment and infrastructure, neglecting the more extensive social-ecological system. This narrow focus fails to capture the full extent of climate risks or contexts, particularly those affecting Indigenous communities, and excludes the social and political structures that compound risk within Indigenous communities. While Canada is grappling with applying a standard risk assessment framework, Indigenous communities, nationally and globally, are deeply concerned that such limited understandings of “risk” could contribute to neglecting climate impacts within the larger ecosystems. 

Generative Futures: Opportunities and Disruptions in Landscape Architecture | Jeff Cutler

2025 – Webinar

CSLA/AAPC

This presentation explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping landscape architecture — accelerating design processes, expanding creative potential, and introducing new risks to mentorship, sustainability, and professional identity. Jeff Cutler, FCSLA, examines both the threats and opportunities AI presents, emphasizing how landscape architects can thrive by cultivating uniquely human skills like intuition, imagination, and critical insight. The session invites participants to explore AI thoughtfully, ensuring the profession evolves without losing its soul.

Heat Waves and Health

2019 – White Paper

Prairie Climate Centre

Many Canadians welcome the arrival of hot summer days as respite from our long, cold winters. But too much heat can be dangerous. There’s no doubt that with climate change we’re going to see more heat waves. Even temperate coastal cities such as Vancouver are preparing for extreme heat impacts. This report takes a look at what extreme heat means for the health of Canadians.

i-Tree Eco

2025 – Tool

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Eco v6 is a model that uses tree measurements and other data to estimate ecosystem services and structural characteristics of the urban or rural forest. Eco is a complete package that provides: Sampling and data collection protocols - For plot-based sample projects, total population estimates and standard error of estimates are calculated based on sampling protocols. For complete inventories, eco calculates values for each tree. Flexible data collection options – Use the mobile data collection system with web-enabled smartphones, tablets or traditional paper sheets. Automated processing - A central computing engine that makes estimates of the forest effects based on peer-reviewed scientific equations to predict environmental and economic benefits. Reports - Summary reports that include charts, tables and a written report.

Landscape and Carbon Report

2024 – White Paper

LI

Landscape and Carbon is the LI and BALI’s report on carbon reduction in the UK landscape sector. It is one of only a handful of publications addressing the subject of carbon in landscape from the perspective of landscape professionals and businesses. Carbon assessment is a new area of working for the profession and is likely to be of increasing importance to those procuring, commissioning and designing landscape projects and works. This BALI and LI report calls for united action on carbon across the landscape sector. It provides eight key recommendations.

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