Resources

The guide provides tools for measuring, valuing and monitoring ecosystem services for key biodiversity areas, natural world heritage sites and protected areas.

This report is a product of the Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Results, which was established to provide advice to the Government of Canada on measuring progress on adaptation and climate resilience. The Expert Panel proposed 54 indicators across 5 chapters: ‘Protecting and Improving Huma Health and Well-Being ‘, ‘Supporting Particularly Vulnerable Regions ‘, ‘Reducing Climate-Related Hazards and Disaster Risks ‘, ‘Building Climate Resilience through Infrastructure ‘, and ‘Translating Scientific Information and Indigenous Knowledge into Action ‘.

Robert J. Johnston presented on ‘Quantifying the Non-Market Benefits of Coastal Adaptation and Natural Infrastructure: Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis‘ on November 6th, 2019. The webinar focused on key trade-offs and economic values associated with different approaches to coastal adaptation, and what it means for adaptation that will be most beneficial to the public. Dr. Johnston talked about trade-offs between green and grey infrastructure for coastal adaptation and the benefits and costs that can result. The focus of the webinar was how economists conceptualize and measure the benefits and costs of coastal adaptation, with particular emphasis on more difficult-to-quantify non-market benefits. It covered the difference between financial (or accounting) benefits and costs and economic benefits.

Michelle Molnar in August, 2019, presented on ‘Gibson’s Journey into Natural Asset Management: Financial Implications ‘. The Town of Gibson is North America’s first community to experiment with integrating natural assets into asset management and financial planning. In 2019, municipal natural asset management was in its infancy in the Town and initial efforts to document the overall impacts, benefits, and lessons of municipal natural asset management are ongoing. This webinar focused on a subset of issues related to financial planning and reporting.

Serge Dupuis presented his work on the Dieppe Naturalized Storm Water Management Pond on October 22nd, 2019, at the Natural Infrastructure Learning Day.

The Green Infrastructure Map highlights green infrastructure projects in and around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The sites on the map include projects like bio retention and dry swales, enhanced swales, vegetated filter strips, permeable pavements, soil amendment areas and underground infiltration systems.

This research explores vegetation addition methods in Atlantic Canada for development of living shorelines in this region.

The St George Marsh Management Plan (2016), prepared by Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc., is to ensure conservation, management and monitoring of the marsh.

This document was developed by the Maritime Natural Infrastructure Collaborative (2018).

InVEST is a software model that is used to map and value the goods and services from nature. The software model is free, and uses maps as information sources and produces map as output.