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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.
Biogeochemical Response to Vegetation and Hydrologic Change in an Alaskan Boreal Fen Ecosystem
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
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.
Native Prairie Protocol for Salt-Affected Wellsites Scientific Rationale Document
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There are a large number of oil and gas sites with salts in soil that exceed one or more generic guideline values. The nature of generic guidelines is that, by definition, they do not uniquely...
Peat Loss Collocates with a Threshold in Plant–Mycorrhizal Associations in Drained Peatlands Encroached by Trees
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. 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).
Reclamation of the Gregg River Mine, Canada
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Reclamation of 1,362 hectare mine site; recent carnivore activity is one indication of the eventual return of a healthy, balanced and sustainable ecosystem to the reclaimed Gregg River mine site.
Risk-based Soil Remediation Guidelines in Coal Mine Closure
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Assessment of the Coleman facility found a range of contaminants exceeding Alberta’s default soil guidelines including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and other hydrocarbon compound
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Background Document
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The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Scientific Rationale Document
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The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
The Third Generation of Pan-Canadian Wetland Map at 10 m Resolution Using Multisource Earth Observation Data on Cloud Computing Platform
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Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...
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.