06/20/2023: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Integrating Nature-based Solutions with Structural Approaches - Encore Presentation, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 11am-1pm Eastern

$198.00

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This is a live, repeat presentation of a webinar that was originally offered on 03/29/2022, 09/27/22, and 01/24/23. Attendees of the previously offered presentations, RV-W032922, RV-W092722, or RV-W012423 , will not receive CEU for attending the 01/24/23 presentation.

Nature can simultaneously both bring destruction and healing. The healing can come from nature-based solutions which weave natural features and processes into a community’s landscape. This two-hour webinar will focus on how nature-based solutions can be included into structural solutions to reduce the impact of natural catastrophes on life, property, and the economy. Specifically, nature-based features can reduce flood risks, improve water quality, increase water quantity, protect coastal zones, restore and protect natural features and vital wetlands, stabilize shorelines and riparian zones, and increase green, recreational space. The webinar will use case studies that depict how nature-based solutions can both enlist natural features and processes with structural solutions in efforts to reduce risks, and improve, protect, and restore important natural features.

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 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 increasing role of nature-based solutions in the protection of property and human welfare.
Distinguish how nature-based solutions reduce the impact of natural catastrophes on life, property, and the economy.
Determine how to utilize natural features and processes in structural approaches that will have an impact on human societies and ecosystems.
Recite the benefits and potential adverse impacts of implementing both nature-based solutions with structural solutions.

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).