See Weller (2014) for an optimistic overview-from within landscape architecture-of the discipline’s past and potential contributions to environmental planning. This thesis section seeks a renewed agency for landscape architecture in development. Theses will explore how landscape architecture could mediate technical practices (e.g., impact assessment of engineering projects, scientific prediction of ecosystem services) and practices of sustainability (e.g., technology transfers, resource governance) as discovered, studied, organized, and disseminated via design and the desire to intervene. Students will employ strategies such as counter-mapping and generate designs that synthesize environmental knowledge with differing value systems into landscape-driven scenarios and development narratives. Long the arena of geography and anthropology, the landscape architect and planner find disciplinary footing from earlier periods of landscape planning, contemporary landscape urbanism, and emergent technologies and approaches from civil engineering and sustainability sciences. (For an immersion into related interdisciplinary human-environment project types, see Roy Chowdhury (2013).)