IFLA Working Programme 14 - Nature Conservation and Biodiversity

Goal: Develop and implement strategies for conserving biodiversity, restoring degraded ecosystems, and promoting the sustainable use of natural resources in landscape planning and design.

Impact: Protect and enhance biodiversity, restore ecological function, and promote the sustainable use of natural resources.

Working Programme Members

Director - Sandra Costa

Sandra is a lecturer and researcher in landscape architecture and design with diversified experience encompassing teaching, research and professional practice. Her teaching explores current issues and challenges faced by landscapes and the built environment, to create resilient environments, healthy urban landscapes and long-term visions for areas identified for future housing and employment, together with strategies relating to important matters such as climate change, food urbanism and public health and wellbeing.

Co-director - Sohyun Park

Sohyun Park is associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include urban ecology, urban and community planning, urban parks and green spaces, and urban morphology. Her research focuses on the relationships among patterns, functions, and services of urban ecological systems and their relevance to environmental sustainability and human well-being.

Other members of Working Programme 14

Bernice Rumble

Bharti Anupama

Chang Luo

Guido Muñoz Solano

Harry Lavelle

Jim Donovan

Selim Bayraktar