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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...
Conservation Close to Home - Story Map
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Conservation Assessment for Southern Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has completed a comprehensive assessment of the conservation needs and opportunities in southern Canada. The first of...
Conservation through Co-occurrence: Woodland Caribou as a Focal Species for Boreal Biodiversity
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Assessment of the focal/umbrella value of boreal caribou for conservation of mammalian and avian richness, based on evaluation of co-occurrence and conducting systematic conservation planning.
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.
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.
Natural Climate Solutions for Canada
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Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions (NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada’s goals for emission reductions. We...
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.