Tag: infrastructure
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Northwest New Brunswick communities explore natural asset approach to manage flooding
Spring has arrived in Canada, but for many communities that brings both flowers and flooding. The MNAI team has worked with numerous…
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Greenbelt Foundation Announces Landmark Natural Asset Management Plan in Halton
Greenbelt Foundation 661 Yonge StreetToronto, ON M4Y 1Z9 (416) 960-0001www.greenbelt.ca Greenbelt Foundation Announces Landmark Natural Asset Management Plan in Halton Grindstone Creek…
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Comox Lake Watershed Update
Stakeholders involved in Canada’s first-ever, watershed-scale, natural asset management project re-convened for their third in-person workshop at the end of February to…
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News Release & Backgrounder: Nature helps communities manage flooding
(Feb. 24, 2020 Victoria) – The latest research from the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) finds that natural assets like wetlands, forests…
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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…
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MNAI Grindstone Creek Project launches!
The Grindstone Creek Project Partners – the City of Burlington, Conservation Halton, Royal Botanical Partners and the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative, together…
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Summary document and roadmap: Advancing Municipal Natural Infrastructure Management workshop in Alberta.
We’re pleased to present the summary document and preliminary roadmap from the September 2019 workshop to advance municipal natural infrastructure management in…
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Natural solutions can deliver core services in coastal communities
In the face of climate change, coastal communities can look to natural assets to better provide core services to their citizens. Watching…
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MNAI projects will close gaps and make it easier to adopt natural asset management
MNAI is now much closer to launching two essential projects that will greatly help local governments adopt the practice of natural asset…
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Local Alberta governments forging ahead in natural asset management
A September 2019 workshop in Alberta demonstrates how the practice of incorporating natural infrastructure into core decision-making and asset management processes is…
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Engineers and the move towards municipal natural asset management
Interview with Ryan O’Grady, P.Eng., Director of Engineering, City of Courtenay I was raised on a Saskatchewan grain farm. This introduced me…
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Canada’s first watershed-scale municipal natural asset management initiative is now underway!
On Vancouver Island, the Comox Valley Regional District, City of Courtenay, Town of Comox and Village of Cumberland and K’ómoks First Nation…
