Municipal
Overview
Municipalities play vital roles both in protecting and preserving natural capital and ecosystem services and in providing citizens with core services. Some municipalities are linking these imperatives by developing a quantifiable financial and operational understanding of core municipal services (e.g. storm water management) that are provided by natural capital (e.g. forests and wetlands).
The Municipal workstream of the Natural Capital Lab worked to support, amplify and enhance these municipal efforts through a coordinated research effort.
In cooperation with the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative, Natural Capital Innovators supported the development of detailed case studies of natural capital strategies in Canadian municipalities. Innovators supported early research and data gathering phases. The case study project will continue under the auspices of the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative.
Potential outcomes of this project include a strengthened understanding in local governments of “good practice” to support and stimulate additional natural capital projects and activities in more Canadian municipalities.
Innovators
Mike Puddister |
Vince Deschamps |
Susan Todd |
Michelle Sawka |
Sara Wilson |
Monica Sood |
Nasha Spence |
Roy Brooke |
Tatiana Koveshnikova |
Jeff Wilson |
Stephanie Thorne |
James Bornemann |
Thomas Bowers |
Michelle Molnar |
Nelson Chan |