The organization of food systems determines how and where we grow, raise, process, and distribute food in an industrial society. With a growing percentage of the population living in urban centers and natural resources strained, developing healthier, more sustainable food systems is more important than ever.

Food Systems Courses

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Urban Agriculture
47 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection
Kevin Credit
48 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Cities in Implementation
Chris Holtkamp
75 Mins
  • CIP
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities
Lauren Dunning
55 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities
Lauren Dunning
43 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD

Top Food Systems Instructors

Lauren Dunning

Lauren Dunning is a lawyer and public health practitioner whose work has focused on developing strategies...

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Chris Holtkamp

Chris Holtkamp is a certified planner and is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning at the...

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Kevin Credit

Kevin is the Assistant Director for Urban Informatics at the Center for Spatial Data Science at...

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Resilience Planning for Floods Sign Up

Resilience Planning for Floods

Instructor: Chris Holtkamp

This course builds on the "Introduction to Resilience Planning" course and uses the approach presented there as the framework for addressing flood threats in communities.

4.51
69 Mins
CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Resilience Planning for Wildfires Sign Up

Resilience Planning for Wildfires

Instructor: Chris Holtkamp

This course explores the history of wildfire management, the factors that increase the threat of wildfires, and how communities can incorporate resilience thinking to plan for wildfires.

4.60
58 Mins
CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
Introduction to Resilience Planning Sign Up

Introduction to Resilience Planning

Instructor: Chris Holtkamp

This course introduces key concepts of resilience planning and explains how to incorporate resilience planning in communities.

4.46
69 Mins
CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Cities Sign Up

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Cities

Instructor: Michael R. Boswell

This course provides instruction on assessing the impacts of climate change on local assets and populations.

4.35
59 Mins
AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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