Municipal Natural Asset Management as a Sustainable Infrastructure Strategy: The Emerging Evidence

Resource Type
Authors
Roy Brooke
Stephanie Cairns
Resource Date:
July
2017
Page Length
24

This paper documents an emerging strategy to manage natural assets such as woodlands, wetlands, and creeks in urban areas as part of a sustainable infrastructure strategy. Specifically, the paper explores Canadian local government experience through the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) to identify, value, and account for natural assets’ contribution to municipal government service delivery, services that would otherwise need to be delivered by engineered assets.