Resources
- ASLA Biodiversity Wiki
- ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan
- Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
ASLA Biodiversity Wiki
This community-sourced Wiki is open to ASLA member landscape architects, designers, academics, and students, along with allied professions in the fields of ecology, biology, and conservation sciences.
Resources in this Wiki are organized by ASLA Chapters and then the Level 2 Eco-Regions found in those Chapters.
Find your Level 2 Eco-Region
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About the Wiki
The Wiki is overseen by the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee Biodiversity Subcommittee.
ASLA Chapters work together across Level 2 Eco-Regions to oversee regional information. ASLA Chapters and their members and allied professionals are welcome to add information to the Wiki.
ASLA Members: Access the Climate & Biodiversity Action Network roster to find collaborators organized by Chapter and university.
Access Key Resources
Landscape Architecture 2040: ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan
Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
If you have any questions, please free to reach out to climate@asla.org.
ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan
Landscape Architecture 2040: Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan is organized into two volumes – one for ASLA members, which include landscape architects and designers, educators and students, product manufacturers and material suppliers, and one for ASLA and ASLA Chapters. Both volumes are organized around four key goals:
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Climate: Scale up climate positive approaches
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Biodiversity: Protect, conserve, restore, enhance and manage
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Equity: Amplify the power of people and communities
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Advocacy: Advance climate and biodiversity action through leadership and engagement
The new plan is designed to act as a resource and guide the climate and biodiversity work of landscape architecture firms and organizations of all sizes. It will also direct all ASLA climate and biodiversity programs and investments from 2026 to 2030. Collective goals and actions will be revisited and updated in 2030 and every five years until 2040 and beyond.
Access biodiversity goals and actions for members
Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects: Essential Knowledge to Inform Meaningful Action offers direction on how to mitigate the biodiversity crisis through design and planning work. It provides landscape architects the baseline information needed to support biodiversity through projects at all scales. It introduces foundational information that enables meaningful collaboration with allied fields, such as ecologists and biologists, during the planning, design, and management phases.
The primer introduces a range of biodiversity topics, including:
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The state of the biodiversity crisis
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Global 30 x 2030 goals
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The five key biodiversity priorities
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How to design with landscape ecology principles
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How to design for biodiversity across scales
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How to measure impact
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How to steward a site for biodiversity