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:
The state of the biodiversity crisis
Global 30 x 2030 goals
The five key biodiversity priorities
How to design with landscape ecology principles
How to design for biodiversity across scales
How to measure impact
How to steward a site for biodiversity
This resource is the first of several to support the implementation of the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan (2026-2030). It will be updated periodically to reflect the shifting state of nature and global priorities and the latest research.
