SUN-B06 - Equity Through City-wide Heat and Urban Forest Management Planning

Sunday, November 21, 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 102

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, ISA

Lead Speaker(s)

Diana Fernandez Bibeau, ASLA

Senior Associate
Sasaki
Watertown, Massachusetts

Speaker(s)

Amy Whitesides, ASLA

Director of Resilience and Research
Stoss
Boston, Massachusetts
Zoe Davis

Climate Resilience Project Manager
City of Boston Office of Environment, Energy and Open Space
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, ISA

In Boston, historic patterns of racism, redlining, and development have created inequities in urban tree canopy cover and the impacts of excess heat. This session will focus on Boston’s simultaneous “Climate-Ready” planning efforts addressing heat resilience and urban forest management, highlighting the process taken to ensure equity-driven planning and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

Evaluate historic attitudes, programs, and policies that have created inequitable risks to excess heat and related inadequate tree canopy
Discuss opportunities to promote “tree equity,” considering co-benefits with community heat resilience strategies
Understand the role of policy, exploratory methods for developing policy with the community, and ‘small p’ policies that initiate early action
Explore techniques for engaging communities and stakeholders to build support for implementation across planning initiatives