This will report highlight how local governments can include private land and private landowners in a comprehensive municipal natural asset management framework.
FCM’s Sustainable Communities Conference will offer three days of must-attend workshops, study tours and plenary sessions that showcase the latest in municipal green innovation and best practices.
Local governments are improving how they identify, value, and manage their natural assets by incorporating them into financial and asset management planning decisions. But what about the portions of natural assets not owned or managed by local governments?
This report highlights how local governments can include private land and private landowners in a comprehensive municipal natural asset management framework.
The report will provide actionable guidance and recommendations for how governments and other stakeholders can improve species at risk recovery work in Canada.
Species at risk populations continue to decline – the status quo simply isn’t helping them enough. But over time, the right mix of economic incentives and policy tools just might be able to turn things around.
This report draws upon multiple sources of insight including a workshop with key stakeholders, a literature review, interviews with SAR recovery experts, and an online survey administered to over 100 informants in academia, government, industry and ENGOs.
Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary
Have you got insights on the circular economy and waste/resource efficiency? Smart Prosperity Institute invites you to submit a guest blog to this special series
Launched by The Natural Step Canada in 2016, this unique process brings together public and private sector leaders from different sectors and value chains to co-develop and implement circular economy solutions.
Understanding how to make Canada’s economy more waste and resource efficient - and more circular.
Reviewing best practices internationally and identifying 6 policy tools to support the transition to a circular economy in Canada.
This guest blog is written by Duncan Bury for the Circular Economy Guest Blog Series.
This guest blog is written by Sally McIntyre for the Circular Economy Guest Blog Series.
The projects funded through the Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network (EEPRN) for 2017-2018 have been announced.
Actionable guidance and recommendations for how governments and other stakeholders can unlock policy tools and incentives to improve species at risk recovery work in Canada.
2018 is now underway and we at Smart Prosperity Institute are ready for a busy year of delivering new research and policy insights for a stronger, cleaner economy.
Who will emerge as leaders in the clean innovation race, and what can a government do to help domestic clean innovators reach the podium?
The paper examines existing models for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation.
