2017 NJ Land Conservation Rally

Climate change creates many hazards for our communities including risks to health, infrastructure, and ecosystems. This workshop will explore opportunities to reduce the impacts of sea level rise, storm surges, and extreme rainfall events through land use strategies.  The workshop will demonstrate the public health and other benefits that can be derived through use of ecosystem services valuation, health impact assessment, and other land use and planning tools. It will provide information on the effects of climate change, discuss the connection between climate change impacts, sustainability and land conservation, and discuss action steps that are available for communities to protect public health, ecosystems and infrastructure. We will draw on recent post-Sandy experience to demonstrate cutting-edge approaches that reflect the benefits of conserving land in the face of climate impacts.

 Approved for APA CM 1.25.

• Participants who successfully complete this educational program will be awarded 1 NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hour (CEs). 
• New Jersey Conservation Foundation has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Health as a provider of New Jersey Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs).