Category: knowledge
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Emerging Standards for Natural Assets: An Opportunity for Canada
Natural assets provide essential services that underpin our economies, our communities, vital infrastructure services, and life itself. They are indispensable for managing…
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Natural Asset Management – Are we moving forward?
Tracking Progress in NAM — Monitoring Report Phase 2 The goal of the second Monitoring Report is to update stakeholders on the…
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The Price of Nature
How to Recognize Nature’s Value in Natural Asset Management Oscar Wilde once observed that “a cynic knows the price of everything and…
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Hausser la barre : normes de gestion des actifs naturels au Canada
C’est officiel : CSA W218, Spécifications pour les inventaires d’actifs naturels a été publiée en tant que norme nationale du Canada, une première dans…
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‘Revolutionary Evolution’ progressing natural asset management in Selkirk, MB
Many local governments approach natural asset management step-by-step, often with an inventory or a single policy change first, testing the waters, and…
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How to Include NAM in Asset Management Plans
From development pressures to impacts from our changing climate, the demands put on municipalities to meet its infrastructure needs requires new, progressive…
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Register Now! Fall 2023 NAM Workshop Series
Take your natural asset management (NAM) knowledge to the next level; fall registration is now open for NAI’s three-part virtual workshop series!…
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Reconciling First Nations’ Worldviews and Perspectives with Natural Asset Management: Learnings from Manitoba
“The time has come for Indigenous knowledge systems, legal traditions, and customary and cultural practices to be appropriately recognized as equally valid…
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News Release: NAI Legal Primer Sheds Light on Obligations, Powers of Local Governments to Protect Nature
Primer suggests growing legal justification for protecting nature in a disrupted climate VICTORIA, BC, February 21, 2023 – With climate change revealing our communities’ true…
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Webinar – Do local governments have legal responsibility to nature?
Natural Asset Management Legal Primer Join our webinar on February 21st and learn about the latest jurisprudence related to natural asset management in…
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Call for Expressions of Interest
Integrating First Nations’ Knowledge & Perspectives Natural Assets Inventory Nature provides a wide range of services on which human well-being and survival depends. This…
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The path to scale
Only a few short years ago the Town of Gibsons, BC, pioneered natural asset management and for a while was the single,…
