CSLA Resource Library

"The ASLA Climate Action Plan is rooted in three key goals and six key initiatives of IFLA Climate Action Commitment. 

Our Vision for 2040: All landscape architecture projects will simultaneously:  Achieve zero embodied and operational emissions and increase carbon sequestration; Provide significant economic  benefits in the form of measurable ecosystem services, health co-benefits, sequestration, and green jobs; Address climate injustices, empower communities, and increase equitable distribution of climate investments; and Restore ecosystems and increase and protect biodiversity. 

Goals Include: Practice: Scale Up Climate Positive Approaches; Equity: Empower Communities to Achieve Climate Justice; Advocacy: Build Coalitions for Climate Action"

This book/webpage assesses and illustrates innovative and practical worldwide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue, illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered), non-structural (nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. Galen Newman, Zixu Qiao

The purpose of this Field Guide is to help landscape architecture professionals and students become better climate advocates individually, as well as through firms, public institutions, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and ASLA’s chapters. For each of the plan’s six key initiatives, you can explore key climate actions to take: On your own, With your firm / organization, And with your community

The Department of Landscape Architecture is hosting “Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change,” a series of talks pairing the research of scientists with the implementation of landscape architects on climate change topics. “Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change" is a series of talks pairing the research of scientists with the implementation of landscape architects on climate change topics. The seventh installment of the 2021-22 public event program "HEAT" presents talks by Jeremy Klemic, Associate Principal at SWA Los Angeles; and Natalie S. van Doorn, Research Urban Ecologist, USDA Forest Service. It will be moderated by lecturer Nina Briggs, founding principal of THE FABRIC

The Department of Landscape Architecture is hosting “Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change,” a series of talks pairing the research of scientists with the implementation of landscape architects on climate change topics. The fourth installment of the 2021-22 public event program “FLOODING” presents talks by Jessica M. Henson, RLA, ASLA, Partner at OLIN; and Mark Hanna, Ph.D., PE, Senior Principal at Geosyntec. It will be moderated by Adrian Tenney ('21, master's in landscape architecture) of Terremoto, Inc. 

The Department of Landscape Architecture is hosting “Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change,” a series of talks pairing the research of scientists with the implementation of landscape architects on climate change topics. The second installment of the 2021-22 public event program “WILDFIRE” presents talks by Max Moritz, Adjunct Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and statewide wildfire specialist within UC Cooperative Extension; and Greg Kochanowski, AIA, ASLA, Partner at GGA+, and founder of The Wild, a nonprofit research lab focusing on the impacts of the climate crisis in urban environments.

The Department of Landscape Architecture is hosting “Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change,” series of talks pairing the research of scientists with the implementation of landscape architects on climate change topics. The first installment of the 2021-22 public event program “DROUGHT” presents talks by Alex Hall, Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Director, UCLA Center for Climate Science; and Gary Lai, Principal and Director of Regenerative Design at MIG,Inc. and Board of Directors for USGBC-LA.

Co-design Now! is a map-based, spatialized resource - that highlights community groups, local initiatives, and grassroots organizations, all in one place. This project aims to amplify the work of community organizations and initiatives across Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas to foster engagement between them and designers to strengthen the resiliency of placemaking and city-building practice. Through the process of crowdsourcing information on grassroots organizations and placemaking initiatives, we hope this resource will expand and deepen cross-disciplinary relationships and raise awareness for design as a vehicle for activism.

Colleen Mercer Clarke's Lecture at the University of Guelph on why nature plays an important role in our changing world, and what landscape architects can accomplish towards reducing emissions, sustaining nature, and improving well-being.

AILA’s Climate Positive Design Series will help guide your climate positive journey, we have three separate documents, targeting three specific areas of our work and practice. Volume 1 provides clear, simple advice on what Australian landscape architects can do to understand and deliver climate positive design through good planning, design, documentation, construction and renewal.  

AILA’s Climate Positive Design Series will help guide your climate positive journey, we have three separate documents, targeting three specific areas of our work and practice.  Volume 2 outlines the steps your practice, business or organisation can take to achieve carbon neutral certification and beyond to become climate positive.  

AILA’s Climate Positive Design Series will help guide your climate positive journey, we have three separate documents, targeting three specific areas of our work and practice.  Volume 3 sets the framework, guidance and time frames for the AILA Executive and State groups to roll out climate positive design to members, and provide engagement and policy direction.