Professor Arnold to lead Adaptive Planning & Resilience Online Course

Adaptive Planning and Resilience, an online, self-paced development course, will be held Feb. 15 through March 28. The six-week, online, asynchronous course totals about 15 hours broken into recorded lecture segments ranging from about 20 minutes to about an hour in length. It is self-paced, within the time window in which the course is offered.

Adaptive Planning and Resilience offers professionals the knowledge and skills to design and implement planning processes that will enable their governance systems, organizations, and/or communities to adapt to changing conditions and sudden shocks or disturbances.

The course will cover the elements of adaptive planning and resilient systems, the legal issues in adaptive planning, how to design and implement adaptive planning processes, and case studies (including guest speakers) from various communities and organizations that are employing adaptive planning methods. Participants will have the opportunity to design or redesign an adaptive planning process for their own professional situation and get feedback from course instructors.

These instructors are led by Professor Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use at the University of Louisville, where he teaches in both the Brandeis School of Law and the Department of Urban and Public Affairs and directs the interdisciplinary Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility. Professor Arnold is an internationally renowned and highly-cited scholar who studies how governance systems and institutions — including planning, law, policy, and resource management — can adapt to changing conditions and disturbances in order to improve social-ecological resilience.

Professor Arnold will be joined by a team of professionals knowledgeable in adaptive planning. They include:

• Sherry Fuller, a business manager at the Irvine Ranch Conservancy in Orange County, California, and former community redevelopment project manager
• Andrew Black, who is Associate Dean of Career Planning and Applied Learning at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a former field representative for two U.S. Senators in New Mexico
• Andrea Pompei Lacy, AICP, who directs the Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development at the University of Louisville
• Jennifer-Grace Ewa, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Inequality and the Provision of Open Space at the University of Denver
• Alexandra Chase, a recent graduate of the Brandeis School of Law who has worked on watershed and urban resilience issues with the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility and now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida
• Brian O’Neill, an aquatic ecologist and environmental planner in Chicago
• Heather Kenny, a local-government and land-use lawyer in California and adjunct professor at Lincoln Law School of Sacramento

Registration is open for individuals and organizations, with a tiered pricing system depending on number of participants. For more information, visit http://louisville.edu/law/flex-courses/adaptive-planning.

Two additional offerings of the course will also be held for those who can't attend the winter session: From June 6 through July 18, and from Sept. 12 through Oct. 25.