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Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Financial Planning and Reporting: Learning from the Town of Gibsons' Experience
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This summary is part of a series designed to provide local governments with easy-to-access information to help with adoption of municipal natural asset management.
Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Funding Opportunities
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This summary reviews six of Canada’s major infrastructure funding programs through the lens of a manager seeking to fund a municipal natural asset project.
Chapter 18 - Creative Approaches in Engaging the Community Toward Ecological Waste Management and Wetland Conservation
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets
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As the municipal infrastructure asset management process evolves, it will be critical to ensure that all community assets that may provide municipal services—lakes, wetlands, green spaces and trees as well as roads, bridges and buildings—are appropriately identified and managed.
Effects of Road Dust on Vegetation Composition and Surface Chemistry of Three Ombrotrophic Peatlands in Eastern Canada
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Dust deposition can fertilize nutrient-limited peatlands and affect their plant assemblages and ecosystem functions, but the effects of local road dust on peatlands have seldom been studied. Here, we...
Municipal Natural Asset Management as a Sustainable Infrastructure Strategy: The Emerging Evidence
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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.
Primer on Natural Asset Management for FCM's 2018 Sustainable Communities Conference
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This 4-page primer introduces the concept of municipal natural asset management (MNAM).
Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands
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This Project Overview document outlines the findings of, and lessons learned by, six local governments as they investigated how natural assets are benefiting their communities.
Will Climate Change Cause the Global Peatland to Expand or Contract? Evidence from the Habitat Shift Pattern of Sphagnum Mosses
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
World Caribou Day - Arrow Lakes Caribou Society Maternity Pen Project
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Join the Caribou Conservation Alliance in celebrating World Caribou Day 2023! 🎥 Meet the Arrow Lakes Caribou Society and learn about the maternity pen project that supports the recovery of the Central...
World Caribou Day - Meet the Toronto Zoo Caribou Keepers and Reproductive Science team
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Join the Caribou Conservation Alliance in celebrating World Caribou Day 2023! Access the event through T he Toronto Zoo's Facebook page 🎥 Part 1: Meet the Toronto Zoo caribou keepers 🎥 Part 2: Meet...