Tag: British Columbia
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Job Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Indigenous Relationships Advisor
As communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast experience the impacts of climate related weather events, natural asset management is an increasingly important way to help…
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Post
Piloting Natural Asset Management: National Cohorts
The Natural Assets Initiative (previously the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative, or MNAI) was convened in 2016 with the goal of refining, testing,…
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Report
Species at Risk and Natural Asset Management
NAI is piloting efforts to help local governments protect Species at Risk (SAR) while delivering core services through natural asset management. The…
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Report
Both/And: Integrating Natural Asset Management into Federal Housing Supply Policymaking
In a world increasingly aware of the need for sustainable development, the intersection of housing policy and natural infrastructure has never been…
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Finance
Accounting for nature: meet the champions leading natural asset management in Rossland, BC
City integrates nature considerations into new procurement policy Located just north of the Canada-U.S. border sits the City of Rossland, British Columbia.…
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National Indigenous Peoples Day
Celebrating Indigenous Wins for People & Planet in 2023
On June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day, we recognize and celebrate the history, heritage, culture, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit…
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News Release
News Release: NAI Legal Primer Sheds Light on Obligations, Powers of Local Governments to Protect Nature
Primer suggests growing legal justification for protecting nature in a disrupted climate VICTORIA, BC, February 21, 2023 – With climate change revealing our communities’ true…
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Natural Asset Management
Making nature visible in decision-making: solving Provincial Barriers to Natural Asset Infrastructure
In the face of climate change, support for Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) continues to grow. However, the extent to which its full potential can…
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Call for EoI
Call for Expressions of Interest
Integrating First Nations’ Knowledge & Perspectives Natural Assets Inventory Nature provides a wide range of services on which human well-being and survival depends. This…
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Coastal Resilience
As more research is directed toward the concept of natural infrastructure, it is becoming clear that coastal ecosystems can provide substantial protection…
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Toward natural asset management in Kootenays
Six local governments in the Kootenays region of British Columbia just completed preliminary natural asset inventories with MNAI, thus taking their first…
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News Release
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…
