Tag: news
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Webinar – Do local governments have legal responsibility to nature?
Natural Asset Management Legal Primer Join our webinar on February 21st and learn about the latest jurisprudence related to natural asset management in…
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Interactive Map Connects Nature-based Projects & Practitioners
The good news is that, due to a diversity of actors, there are many new innovative solutions and projects to drive progress…
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Asset management training for Canadian local governments
MNAI is pleased to be one of 16 partners that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), with funding from Infrastructure Canada, selected…
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The path to scale
Only a few short years ago the Town of Gibsons, BC, pioneered natural asset management and for a while was the single,…
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News Release: New National Standard of Canada will help standardize natural asset inventories
NEWS RELEASE New National Standard of Canada will help standardize natural asset inventories FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 15, 2022 VICTORIA, BC / TORONTO,…
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Natural Assets Underpin Asset Management Planning in Logy-Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Newfoundland
“The need for sustainable development was what drove me into local politics,” said Paul Ryan, who was first elected to the Town…
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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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MNAI September blog: update on Canada’s first watershed-scale initiative
Progress is continuing in Canada’s first watershed-scale, natural asset management project that launched earlier this year. In March, several communities in the…
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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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News Release: MNAI meets growth with expanded board expertise
NEWS RELEASE MNAI meets growth with expanded board expertise FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (July 2, 2019) VICTORIA, BC – As more and more municipalities…
