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