How Economists Value Landscape Architecture – 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Join a collective learning experience for the landscape architecture community. We will explore how to better understand the many economic benefits of nature-based solutions that landscape architects plan and design.

The series builds on the economic analyses ASLA released in 2024 and will help guide a new economic research plan for the landscape architecture community.

The series will explore:

• How economists and project stakeholders (governments, developers, insurance companies, etc.) understand the economic benefits of nature-based solutions and landscape architecture
• How landscape architects can better make the economic case for their projects
• Potential areas of economic research that can be advanced by ASLA, the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF), the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) and landscape architecture educators, partner organizations (ULI, etc.), and economists and market researchers

The landscape architecture community has made major strides in communicating the economic benefits of nature-based solutions and landscape architecture. Last year, ASLA published a series of economic research briefs that synthesized existing research on economic benefits. The research also explored the economic benefits found in the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)’s Landscape Performance Series Case Study Briefs. Learn how to leverage economic frameworks to make the case for your project.