Tag: First Nations
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How planners can build better communities with nature
NAI working with Prairie planners to balance nature and growth We’re back! NAI’s team has returned from two impactful workshops with planners…
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Scaling up investments in watersheds
Taking care of our natural resources—like forests, rivers, and lakes—is more important than ever. All the evidence suggests that this requires investments…
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Embracing natural assets: A pathway to resilient insurance practices?
As climate change accelerates, the Canadian insurance sector finds itself at a critical crossroads. Rising claims due to extreme weather events have…
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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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Job Opportunity: Indigenous Relationships Advisor
As communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast experience the impacts of climate related weather events, natural asset management is an increasingly important way to help…
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Progress in the Prairies: Natural Asset Management in Saskatoon
The City of Saskatoon is creating a way to work with nature to meet critical service delivery needs through natural asset management (NAM). Specifically,…
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Celebrating Indigenous Wins for People & Planet in 2023
On June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day, we recognize and celebrate the history, heritage, culture, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit…
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We are the Natural Assets Initiative
We’re not re-branding! …But we are changing our name to better reflect all that we do and all those we work with.…
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Land, Water & Natural Resources – Update on NAM and Reconciliation
Great news from Manitoba: the Land, Water and other Natural Resources Inventory — part of collaborative efforts between the Southern Chiefs’ Organization and the mayors…
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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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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…
