Our impact areas:

We’re making natural asset management mainstream.

NAI works with organizations across Canada, including local governments, provincial governments, Indigenous Nations, watershed agencies, professional organizations, and others to identify, account for, and manage their natural assets.

LEARN FROM NAM LEADERS

Each project provides insight into how the approach can be adapted and improved to best support sustainable, reliable service delivery with nature. We learn from the ‘doers’, which is why we make the majority of our research free and publicly accessible.  

Natural asset inventories are a fundamental first step in natural asset management — NAI works with a growing number of local governments, rightsholders, and organizations to develop their inventories and define next steps to advance in natural asset management. Explore our inventories in our project map below.

As NAM is an evolving practice, the NAI team also leads special projects to improve, refine, and explore methodologies and approaches. This includes assessing past NAM initiatives, as well as developing new tools to address local priorities, like coastal flooding and watershed conservation financing.

Case Examples 

Stories from those on the ground that are transforming their communities and regions through natural asset management.

Map of NAI Projects