Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2024 conference session.
Start Date
10/21/2024
End Date
10/20/2026
Description
There is never enough funding for design, construction, and maintenance of green infrastructure. In this session, you will learn about models to bring resources to green infrastructure: systems-based solutions for revitalizing vacant land and parks, structuring green finance to mobilize private investments, and partnering for a full-circle urban wood economy.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Sustainable Development & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Understand how to design a process to uncover desired outcomes from green spaces, and how to mobilize partners in their community to construct and care for green spaces.; Use a justice-informed co-design process to integrate community member and implementation partner preferences in the design of high-performance landscapes.; Understand green bonds and other innovative financing instruments and how they support communities in reaching their sustainability and green infrastructure goals.; Understand how urban wood can be used in construction of green spaces, and how capturing value from urban wood can contribute to funding green infrastructure, especially urban forests.
Instructors
Lauren Marshall; Marisa Repka; Andy Gurgol
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects