(SI05) How Nature-based Solutions Are Key to Resilient City Infrastructure

Thursday, October 13, 2022

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM

Location: Virtual Session

Earn 1 Credit(s)

As we prepare for climate change, increasing population, and rapid urbanization, there is a potent opportunity to invest differently with city infrastructure. Nature-based solutions and landscape-led interventions create value and address multiple societal needs. Parks, university campuses, streetscapes, plazas, and other open spaces can serve as essential infrastructure to improving health, creating habitat, providing flood control, reducing urban heat island effects, and more.

Learning Objectives:

Learn about transformational projects that integrate nature-based solutions for resilient city infrastructure.
Identify key landscape-based strategies in the SITES v2 Rating System that lead and support integrated solutions.
Learn how SITES v2 credits address multiple needs from stormwater management, urban heat island reduction, carbon sequestration, flood control, to improving human health and social connection on a development project.
Gain an understanding of the key success measures in determining high-performance landscapes.

Presenter(s)

Danielle Pieranunzi, SITES AP, LEED AP BD+C

SITES Director
Green Building Certification, Inc.
Heather Whitlow

Senior Director of Programs & Communications
Landscape Architecture Foundation