Scope

The Sustainable Sites Initiative will promote sustainable land development and management practices and can apply to sites with and without buildings including, but not limited to the following:

Healthy landscapes provide benefits to human functioning, health, and well-being.
  • Open spaces such as local, state and national parks, conservation easements and buffer zones and transportation rights of way.
  • Sites with buildings including industrial, retail and office parks, military complexes, airports, botanical gardens, streetscapes and plazas, residential and commercial developments and public and private campuses.

    • The products of the Sustainable Sites Initiative will provide tools for those who influence land development and management practices and can address increasingly urgent global concerns such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and resource depletion. They can be used by those who design, construct, operate and maintain landscapes, including but not limited to planners, landscape architects, engineers, developers, builders, maintenance crews, horticulturists, governments, land stewards and organizations offering building standards.