Climate Resiliency

75-Minute Education Session

SAT-A02 - Puerto Rico: Holding on to the Future/Aferrado al Futuro

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Richard Roark, ASLA, LEED AP

  Partner
  OLIN

Speaker(s)

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  Edmundo Colón-Izquierdo, ASLA

  Principal
  ECo
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  Eric Rothstein

  Managing Partner
  eDesign Dynamics

The future is under consideration in Puerto Rico. An unprecedented level of federal recovery funds have been allocated to the island, but the outcomes will be told through the priorities and plans that follow. This will be an inflection point that will have profound impacts on land, water, infrastructure, and the diverse communities who hold the future of the island.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how landscape architects can affect infrastructure by addressing risk reduction through landscape design practices.
• Explore the economics of disaster response and recovery.
• Understand the challenges of practice with the recovery environments.
• Consider future disaster scenarios and the lessons learned from the past.