Category: Provinces & Territories
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Six ways local governments are planning for nature as core infrastructure
Whether you’re developing a new community-wide plan or making routine updates to your policies and bylaws, each is an opportunity to integrate…
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NAI & IISD Partnership Powers Natural Infrastructure in the Prairies
IISD’s Natural Infrastructure for Water Solutions (NIWS) program and NAI have a shared goal: make nature-based solutions mainstream in Canada. What started…
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Charlottetown leverages natural assets in new Climate Action Plan
Two years in the making, the City of Charlottetown, PEI has now approved its first-ever Climate Action Plan! The plan guides the City’s…
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Blazing a natural asset management trail in the Regional District of Nanaimo
A growing number of local governments are recognizing that nature is an important ally for the delivery of essential services. Cities and…
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Pelham Greenbelt Project reveals how nature provides millions in stormwater management
A recent project in the Town of Pelham, Ontario, reveals how much communities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region rely on natural…
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From Disaster to Resilience: Grand Forks’ transformation through floodplain naturalization
Last year, a large flood was forecasted for Grand Forks, BC, one that would rival the record-breaking disaster that devastated the community…
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Saanich Inventory Project Part of NAM Surge on Southern Vancouver Island
The District of Saanich (Saanich) is leveling-up in natural asset management (NAM) with the completion of their first natural asset inventory! The…
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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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Natural Assets Underpin Asset Management Planning in Logy-Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Newfoundland
“The need for sustainable development was what drove me into local politics,” said Paul Ryan, who was first elected to the Town…
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Resource to help navigate and implement O. Reg. 588/17
Ontario is the first province in Canada to regulate asset management planning at the municipal level. Regulation Asset Management Planning for Municipal…
