Land Use Planning: an Ecosystem Approach to Achieving Sustainability

May 21, 2010
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
UO in Portland, White Stag Block 152
Presenter: Jason Franklin, AICP
Kevin Halsey

Course Description

This course will focus on how land use decisions affect our ability to achieve sustainability. The choices we make with regard to spatial planning on the land around us, as well as in coastal and ocean areas, will be critical to determining whether we can be sustainable in the future.

This course will start by identifying factors that will (and in some cases already are) changing the way we think about land use, including climate change, increased pressures from population growth, concerns about peak oil, the increased focus on renewable energy, etc.

This course will identify emerging trends in land use and marine spatial planning and explore the latest methods and approaches such as:

• Ecosystem service analysis
• Understanding limiting factors for reaching sustainability
• Moving to more function-based land use planning, and others

Specific strategies and approaches for moving towards sustainable land use and marine spatial planning will be addressed.

Registration and Fees

• Non-Credit Fee: $279
• Earlybird Fee: $244
• Earlybird Registration Deadline: 05/07/2010
• Register for this course

More Information

• About Jason Franklin, AICP
  About Kevin Halsey
• Download the program brochure

Workshops

• Community Event Design and Management: A Triple Bottom Line Approach
• Public/Private Partnerships for Sustainability
• Equity and Sustainability: How to Balance Your Triple Bottom Line
• Writing Your Sustainability Plan: Process and Framework
• Forming and Facilitating Sustainability Teams: Engaging and Training Employees
• Power of Purchasing: Sustainable Procurement
• Accounting for Sustainability: Reporting Principles and Concepts
• Green Building Design and Operations: Benefits, Strategies and Resources
• Investment in Natural Infrastr.: Ecosystem Services as an Emerging Asset Class
• Carbon Footprints and Climate Risk: Tools for Business and Government
• Sustainability Indicators and Assessment for Government
• Sustainable Economic Development through Public Sector Investment
• Sustainability by Design: Retrofitting our Cities, Communities and Neighborhoods
• Energy Efficiency First: A Map to Reducing Costs and Carbon Footprint
• Land Use Planning: an Ecosystem Approach to Achieving Sustainability
• Sustainable Transportation Strategies: Processes, Indicators, and Measurements
• Writing Your Sustainability Plan: Process and Framework
• Climate Policy, Carbon Credits and Business Risk
• Energy and Climate Action Planning

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