Biodiversity Trends for Landscape Architects

In the last few years, a focus on conserving and increasing biodiversity has gained significant traction, including within the design and development disciplines. From large-scale actions like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to recently implemented regulations like the United Kingdom’s Biodiversity Metric to more grassroots movements for pollinators and native plants, biodiversity issues are core to the work of landscape architects.

Although most designers now recognize the importance of biodiversity, there is still a lack of clarity surrounding what the larger biodiversity movement means for the work of landscape architects and the business of landscape architecture, how it can be meaningfully conserved or enhanced through existing modes of practice, and where the conversation about biodiverse landscapes will go next.

In this webinar, three expert panelists consider these big questions in a high-level dialogue about the biodiversity trends that landscape architects need to know.