10/29/2024: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Landscaping for Biodiversity - Third Repeat Presentation, Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 11am-1pm Eastern

$198.00

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This is a live, repeat presentation of a webinar that was originally offered on 12/19/2023 and 05/07/2024. Attendees of the previously offered presentation, RV-W121923 or RV-W050724, will not receive CEU for attending the 10/29/2024 presentation.

Landscaping is no longer about aesthetics and beautification. Landscaping is now about planting with a purpose, which is to provide diversity and balance for our natural environment by the plant choices made in our own backyard. This two-hour webinar will focus on how using a diversity of native plants, can encourage functioning plant communities with few pest problems while supporting the health of our ecosystems to reduce chemical inputs, support wildlife, and minimize ecological deserts. This webinar will use a series of case studies and practical examples that replicate native plant community biodiversity, dynamics, and structure to find ecological balance.

Note: This is a live webinar delivered via GoToWebinar. Session instructions will be emailed to you 24-48 hours prior to the webinar and the morning of the webinar. If you have not received your instructions for any reason please call RedVector Client Support (1-866-546-1212) the day of the event. Webinars are live and interactive. Students will have the ability to directly interact with and ask questions of the presenter.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

Recognize the need for resilience and adaptation in landscaping
Explain the importance of implementing biodiversity in landscape design and how this can avoid negative impacts to the health and
safety of the public
Develop reasoning to understand which bio-diverse landscape designs will best heal fragmented ecosystems within our communities
Detail important case studies of bio-diverse communities that ensure balance is maintained at a level that safeguards natural processes

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Rumanda Young, Ph.D.

Dr. Young is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) in the state of Texas and a Certified Planner (AICP). She holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture (BLA) from the University of Arkansas, a master’s degree in city and regional planning (MCRP) with environmental planning emphasis from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and public policy. Dr. Young also spent time abroad in Cheltenham, England at the University of Gloucestershire focusing on sustainable development practices, environmental planning, and resource management.

Dr. Young has eight years of private practice experience, six of which working with the firm Carter & Burgess, Inc. She was involved in a variety of work including a wide range of park and recreational planning and design projects. Landscape Architectural experience ranges from preparation of detail site design plans, inventory and analysis documents, park, recreation and open space master plans, city-wide comprehensive plans, interpretive prospectus documents, construction document preparation, and preparation of grant applications and rezoning applications for cities throughout Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Dr. Young currently works as a Military Master Planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Branch. Dr. Young is involved in a variety of work including a wide range of military planning, programming, and design projects. Project Management experience ranges from installation design guides to campus master plans. Projects also focus on the impacts of development on human health and the environment, and improvements through better siting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of military projects.

Dr. Young is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture. She teaches master’s level landscape architecture design studio course(s).