Preliminary Roadmap
In July 2021, Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia issued its Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management, which describes the expectations and obligations of professional engineering and geoscience professionals as they practice in the field of local government asset management. The Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) released
a companion document, Natural Assets Management Considerations for Engineering and Geoscience Professionals (NAM Considerations Document), that Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Council endorsed.
Together, the Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management and NAM Considerations Document will help standardize engineering and geoscience practice in asset management in B.C. and will help ensure that engineering and geoscience professionals are considering natural asset management in their planning and decision-making processes.
This preliminary roadmap builds on that work and provides initial insights for how other professional disciplines can also develop natural asset management (NAM) professional norms or guidance for their fields.
Companion Guide
Engineers and Geoscientists BC, the regulatory body for engineering and geoscience in British Columbia, is developing Professional Practice Guidelines on local government asset management; these include natural asset management as a fully integrated component.
This document is a companion to the Engineers and Geoscientists BC AM Practice Guidelines. It is intended for licensed Engineering and Geoscience Professionals employed by or contracted by local governments (as defined by the Engineers and Geoscientists BC AM Guidelines). It offers detailed considerations for integrating natural assets effectively into local government asset management, while simultaneously acknowledging and valuing Indigenous peoples and their intimate relationship with, and insights into, the natural environment, which often positions them as rightful advocates of the land being managed.
