Tue, September 23, 2014 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM OLD BARN COMMUNITY CENTRE. FREE. The New Urban Forestry – Climate Proofing Our Cities
Tuesday, Sept 23, 5:00 pm, Old Barn Community Centre, meeting room #2
(part of National Forest Week celebrations, UBC Forestry)
Transforming our cities into liveable, safe, attractive & sustainable urban landscapes of the future? Join us for a talk and a sneak peek into UBC's proposed undergraduate degree in Urban Forestry!
Prof. Stephen R.J. Sheppard, PhD, ASLA
Stephen teaches in sustainable landscape planning, aesthetics, and visualization in the Faculty of Forestry, and Landscape Architecture programs at UBC. He received a BA/MA in Agricultural and Forest Sciences at Oxford, a MSc in Forestry at UBC, and a PhD in Environmental Planning at UC, Berkeley. He directs the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP), an interdisciplinary research group using perception-testing and immersive/interactive visualization to support public awareness and collaborative planning on climate change and sustainability issues. He has over 30 years’ experience in environmental assessment and public participation internationally. He has written or co-written two books on visual simulation, and recently published “Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions”. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive guide to visual communication of climate change. Stephen has also provided leadership in developing the new Urban Forestry undergraduate degree at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry. His current research interests lie in perceptions of climate change and renewable energy, planning for low-carbon resilient communities and video games as a community engagement tool on climate change.