Edward Hamm

Ed Hamm ASLA, CNU, is a graduate of the University of Florida, Harvard Graduate School of Design and an owner of Resilience Studio where he plans and builds in response to climate change. As a landscape architect, regional planner and urbanist Ed brings years of experience in ecological planning, transportation planning and urban design to the nascent field of sea level rise adaptation.

Sea level rise adaption is unique in that it engages the land and the sea. Both salt and fresh water ecosystems are carefully considered, at regional and site specific scales, to ensure that both our cities and oceans flourish while we adapt to climate change.

Ed plans the tidal edge as the last place, the final step, in the treatment chain of storm water management. This will be where we both clean our urban runoff and protect our cities from rising sea levels. Resilience Studio makes room for estuarine habitats at this edge, by both giving up portions of the city to the tides and by creating platforms to support these habitats. Careful estuarine habitat management is especially crucial if sea levels rise at rates too fast for their adaptation, as many forecast.

Having lived and worked Southeast Asia and Hong Kong he understands them as settings where environmental quality, and the ecosystems that support it, will be of paramount importance as a region faces climate change. Ed challenges attendees to consider the value of building this new interdisciplinary field of practice, Sea Level Rise Adaptation, as an important step in our effort to become more resilient.

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