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Nature-based solutions focus on using natural features and processes to solve environmental issues while enhancing traditional engineered solutions to be more resilient, biodiverse, and aesthetically pleasing. 🌻🌳♻ Given our role as ecological designers and consultants, it should come as no surprise that nature-based solutions are at the heart of our innovative problem solving. Over the last week we have featured multiple nature-based projects like living shorelines and stormwater parks that our integrated team of landscape architects and ecologists have brought to life. These built projects offer significant ecological and community benefits as habitat and natural resources but are often components of larger efforts like waterfront and urban park restorations and erosion control and shoreline armoring. There are projects though where nature-based solutions are the primary focus of a project aimed at solving one or more site-specific issues. These may include engineered projects like green roofs and treatment wetlands, along with more traditional landscape projects that use unique plant palettes to naturally “clean” contaminated sites, a.k.a. phytoremediation. Great Ecology’s Constructed Treatment Wetland project at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, in collaboration with Fuscoe Engineering, Inc., tackled the challenge of treating stormwater runoff with a nature-based solution that utilized existing available space within the site’s world-famous horse track while maintaining necessary aesthetic value. Learn more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/dki-mspD #WLAM2024 #ThisIsLandscapeArchitecture #NatureBasedSolutions #Resilience #Biodiversity #EcologicalDesign #Ecology #NaturalResources #Wetlands #PhytoRemediation

Looking forward to talking about Which Plant Where and climate-ready plant selection! Which Plant Where Smart Green Cities

Hey Landscape Architects! Have you done a project that addresses Climate Change, Ecology and the Environment? Landscapes|Paysages magazine is looking for stories about projects for our fall issue that Decarbonize Design! DM me for more details!

European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools JoLA Wildfire Call until May 15 - Special Issue ECLAS' Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) announces a new call for submissions to a special issue focusing on the long-term challenges that wildfires pose to the next generation of professionals in support of human societies’ targets for an adaptable future in the face of climate change/challenges. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e_pwPKVJ Potential topics of interest are: · future fire-resilient regional planning and design approaches; · ecosystem evolution, composition and structure; · fire management and community protection; · pre- and post-fire landscape analysis and scenario building; · fire tracking systems; · fire-conscious political and legislative frameworks. However, our interest is broad and not limited to these topics. Please submit abstracts (500 words max., visuals encouraged) on both traditional and unconventional modes of research, practice-based, fieldwork-based, theoretical or historical. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Full papers must be written by 2 September. For more information about the journal, different manuscript sections and publication conditions please visit https://lnkd.in/etq_RSsh #resilience #climateadaptation #landscaperesearch #landscapearchitecture #jola #eclas #wildfireprevention #wildfire #landscapemanagement

Congratulations to this year's Linda Milbourne Fellowship winner, Scout Kerensky-Coodley who worked on this incredible graduate fellowship project! This landscape architecture project was on the Fort Jay Meadow on Governor's Island in New York. We are very impressed with the work she did to complete this incredible report! We wish her well in her future landscape architecture endeavors. PROJECT GOALS: Public Experience: Welcome visitors to have an immersive experience exploring a natural meadow, with opportunities for public programming and engagement. Invasive Plant Mitigation: Remove the invasive plants in the area, and replace with native grasses and flowers that provide high quality habitat for birds and pollinators. Low Maintenance: Improve site conditions to have a landscape with lower long-term management costs, inputs and requirements than a traditional lawn. Habitat Replenishment: Increase the footprint of important meadow and grassland habitat in New York City, providing high quality wildlife refuge. Climate Resilient: Design a landscape that tolerates drought and reduces stormwater runoff, all while sequestering more carbon than a traditional lawn. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dsgH3Yx4 #GoPublicGardens #PublicGardens #PublicGardens #landscape #landscaping #landscapearchitecture #NewYork #GovernorsIsland

JoLA Wildfire Call until May 15 - Special Issue ECLAS' Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) announces a new call for submissions to a special issue focusing on the long-term challenges that wildfires pose to the next generation of professionals in support of human societies’ targets for an adaptable future in the face of climate change/challenges. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e_pwPKVJ Potential topics of interest are: · future fire-resilient regional planning and design approaches; · ecosystem evolution, composition and structure; · fire management and community protection; · pre- and post-fire landscape analysis and scenario building; · fire tracking systems; · fire-conscious political and legislative frameworks. However, our interest is broad and not limited to these topics. Please submit abstracts (500 words max., visuals encouraged) on both traditional and unconventional modes of research, practice-based, fieldwork-based, theoretical or historical. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Full papers must be written by 2 September. For more information about the journal, different manuscript sections and publication conditions please visit https://lnkd.in/etq_RSsh #resilience #climateadaptation #landscaperesearch #landscapearchitecture #jola #eclas #wildfireprevention #wildfire #landscapemanagement

Dive into the world of nature's master builders, where the humble beaver transforms barren streams into bustling ecosystems. Witness how these unassuming architects engineer wetlands, shaping the very fabric of the land to create life-sustaining habitats. Explore the ripple effect of their ingenuity, from flood control to water purification, and see how restoring these natural engineers can breathe life back into our landscapes. #ecosystemrestoration #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #georgemonbiot

Burying Their Heads in the Sand? The Reality of Landscape Architects and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)   We asked our landscape architects and ecologists what they thought about this statement...   Here’s what they said: #BiodiversityConservation #LandscapeDesign #EcologicalBalance #GreenDevelopment #SustainablePlanning #BNGInitiatives #BiodiversityNetGain #GreenInfrastructure #EnvironmentalStewardship #EcoFriendlyDesign

Sustainable Architecture: Creating Wildlife Corridors in Urban Landscapes https://lnkd.in/e2wwA7A5 #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #builtenvironment #biodiversityoffsetting

Besides being a landmark public space for the town of Dhuliyan, the redevelopment of the Railway precinct attempts to contribute towards the ecological betterment of the place. It was observed that appropriate site grading and a system of connected water receptacles (many of which are existing ponds nearby) can solve flooding related issues. Design Team: Suptendu Biswas, Vina Verghese Biswas, Devneil Biswas, Sharli Chatterjee, Divija Pampana #contextualarchitecture #architectsforchange #ecology #climatechange #urban #landscape #city #sustainabledevelopment #publicspace #publicplacemaking #inclusivity #indianarchitecture