2017 OCASLA Annual Meeting and Expo Educational Session #2: Farming Habitat: Designing for Wildlife in Working Landscapes

Registration Eligibility

Open to all

Start Date

05/19/2017

End Date

05/19/2017

Description

Agriculture comprises the most extensive and closely coupled human and natural system in the world. Agricultural expansion and intensification threaten biodiversity via habitat conversion, fragmentation, and degradation. This in turn impacts communities through the loss of species with inherent scientific, economic, and cultural value. The large-scale conservation of natural ecosystems and the wildlife they support will thus require integration of cost-effective and sustainable conservation practices into mainstream agricultural production systems worldwide. This is a challenge of design. As design professionals, if we can recognize the highly industrialized spaces of agriculture as untapped opportunities for design intervention - we can then begin to design more ecologically sensitive infrastructures that operate within existing working landscapes.

Location

Columbus, OH

Distance Learning

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Agriculture / Local Food Production
Sustainable Development & Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.50

Learning Outcomes

1. Review the challenges of habitat fragmentation in agricultural landscapes
2. Learn about design strategies for terrestrial and avian habitat enhancement
3. Learn how to integrate ecological principals into a designed productive landscape

Instructors

Forbes Lipschitz

Course Codes

Provider

Ohio Chapter of ASLA

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