Campus Planning & Design

Education Session - Panel Format

SUN-B02 - Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

1.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, GBCI CE, NY/HSW

Moderator(s)

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  Katherine Harvey, ASLA

  Studio Director
  Stoss Landscape Urbanism

Panelists(s)

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  Claire Latané, ASLA, SITES AP

  Senior Associate
  Studio-MLA
• BA

  Bevin Ashenmiller

  Associate Professor
  Occidental College
• EA

  Eileen Alduenda, ASLA

  Interim Executive Director
  Council for Watershed Health

A multidisciplinary panel will share strategies to address climate change, aging infrastructures, and maintenance for the country’s second-largest school district and Los Angeles’s largest landowner. Their work and case studies reconsider school landscapes in terms of educational enrichment, ecological services, and public health at the regional scale.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Examine strategies for engaging public agencies on retrofitting and adapting their landscapes.
• 2. Learn about the research on how green school yards benefit mental health, and student performance and outcomes.
• 3. Examine the role of economics and how landscape benefits are represented and measured.
• 4. Hear strategies for overcoming perceived and real barriers for public agencies to address climate change and public health with landscape.