Nate Kauffman

Director, Sustainable Environmental Design Program / Adjunct Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Address

316C, Bauer Wurster Hall

Phone

(510) 664-7583

natekauffman@berkeley.edu

Address

316C, Bauer Wurster Hall

Phone

(510) 664-7583

natekauffman@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

Climate Adaptation; Sustainable Design & Development; Ecological Planning & Strategy; The Public Realm; Systems Architecture; Industrial Ecology; Green Infrastructure.

EDUCATION

BA Psychology, UC San Diego

Masters Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley

PhD, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

BIOGRAPHY

Nate Kauffman is a Climate Adaptation Planner specializing in studying, designing and implementing systematic and strategic change. A winner of multiple national awards for environmental design and planning, Nate is also a researcher and scholar with a broad consulting portfolio for various cross-sector clients. As VP of a tech startup working to broaden climate awareness and civic engagement to the public and planning agencies, Nate graduated from UC Berkeley's SkyDeck incubator and accelerator. Nate teaches courses in sustainable design and development; and environmental design, planning and site engineering. A general contractor in a past life, Nate spends his nonexistent free time in, on, around and inevitably under water.

COURSES TAUGHT

- LD120: Topographic Form and Design Technology
- ED110: Designing Sustainability
- LD203C: Shaping the Public Realm

Publications

Climate Change, Adaptation Planning and Institutional Integration: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework (2021)

Sediment for Survival: A Strategy for the Resilience of Bay Wetlands in the Lower San Francisco Estuary (2021)

Infrastructuring the Imaginary (2019)