Search: Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Ecosystems

Interdisciplinary course taught in conjunction with Civil and Environmental Engineering 210N, for students who intend to carry out research on damaged ecosystems, supervise actual restorations or enhancement, and also students who are simply interested in this field. The course emphasizes differences and similarities in restoration goals and strategies among wetlands, rivers, lakes, and estuaries, and coastal oceans. The course format is based on the Dahlem system where students prepare and present orally and in writing, one or two aspects of the topic and culminates with an all-day conference on aquatic restoration/enhancement

Analysis of environmental factors, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem dynamics, as related to decision-making for landscape planning and design