Rights of Nature: Approaches to Environmental Justice

Indigenous communities have lived in harmony with the environment for millennia. Now they have led the creation of the Rights of Nature movement, which recognizes that ecosystems and wildlife have the legal right to exist, flourish, and evolve. Learn from an Indigenous leader, legal and policy expert, and a landscape architecture educator and designer on how to support and embrace this burgeoning global movement from within the field of landscape architecture.

Rights of Nature: Approaches to Environmental Justice - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Thursday, July 30

1:00 p.m. (Eastern) / 10:00 a.m. (Pacific)
Members: FREE | Non-members: $55

The discussion will include:

• Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck
  Co-Founder, Seven Directions of Service
  Adjunct Professor, Salem College

• Pamela Martin
  Professor of Political Science and the HTC Distinguished Honors Fellow at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina
  Judge, International Rights of Nature Tribunal

• Aaron Hernandez
  Assistant Professor
  University of Guelph, Canada

• MaFe Gonzalez, Assoc. ASLA
  Landscape Designer and Botanist
  BASE Landscape Architecture

The Biodiversity & Climate Action 101 for Landscape Architects Webinar Series is hosted by the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee, which leads the implementation of the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan, and underwritten by Landscape Forms. Join climate and biodiversity action leaders to explore innovative strategies for decarbonization, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. ASLA members may register now for the 2026 series and will automatically be signed up when future webinars are added.