Natural Asset Management 101
Everything you need to know about why we need NAM, and how to make nature count.

FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Along with our primary resources above, we publish a number of guides and primers geared towards local governments to grow their NAM knowledge and address challenges and opportunities at their organization.
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Planning with nature in the prairies Guide to integrating natural asset management in local government plans
This Guide is part of a pilot project to assist local governments across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in addressing their infrastructure needs…
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Nature is Infrastructure: How to Include Natural Assets in Asset Management Plans
A Guidebook for Local Governments This Guidebook provides direction and insight for Canadian local governments who are seeking to undertake natural asset…
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now what?
You’ve completed a preliminary natural asset inventory; Now What? A guide to next steps Why and how to progress to a full…
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Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management
Through Infrastructure Funding Opportunities Decision-Maker Summary Canadian local governments are seeking new strategies to deliver their core services in more financially and…
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Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands
The Municipal Natural Assets Initiative aims to equip local governments across Canada with the tools needed to identify and account for natural…
NAI Decision-Maker Summaries
Below are decision-maker summaries for 5 of NAI’s most popular research documents.
They are part of a series designed to provide local governments with easy-to-access information to help with adoption of municipal natural asset management. These summaries have been drawn from five reports published by NAI between 2017-2019.
NAI undertakes research to achieve:
- A widespread understanding amongst local governments of the examples of, and the business case for, municipal natural asset management;
- Enabling conditions for municipal natural asset management to become a mainstream practice across Canada; and,
- Widespread uptake of tools that enable and encourage local governments to undertake municipal natural asset management.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
Managing natural assets relies on expertise from multiple disciplines, including land planning, engineering, accounting, and many more. Explore our guides and best practices, and become a NAM leader in your field.
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Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management
General Practice Guidelines These Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management were developed by Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia to guide…
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British Columbia’s Engineers and Geoscientists Professional Guidelines
Preliminary Roadmap In July 2021, Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia issued its Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management, which describes…
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