Module 2: Natural asset management on the ground
Welcome to Module 2. The focus of this module is on the communities that have been leading the way on natural asset management. We will learn about how the original work in Gibsons, BC has spread to communities in 4 provinces; what the results have been so far, and why.
Module 2 Learning Goals
This Module will help you:
- Understand the natural asset management methodology in more detail, including some of the current and upcoming tools that can be applied in communities
- Consider the results of projects completed in sone of the main communities to date
Readings and Resources
Required Reading
MNAI Cohort 1 Results – Summary (link removed due to copyright)
MNAI Cohort 2 Results – Summary (link removed due to copyright)
Optional Reading
Check out the blog and report from recent work in Northwest New Brunswick
At this link you can watch a webinar with the Fraser Basin Council on the results to date of the Comox Lake Watershed Project.
Module 2 Overview
Module 2 explores how the original work in Gibsons, BC, is beginning to getting refined, replicated, and scaled-up in communities across Canada. Topics include:
- An introduction video
- A review of MNAI Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 projects
- Two communities in New Brunswick that have completed MNAI projects
- A watershed-level initiative underway on Vancouver Island, BC
- The development and piloting of a tool to integrate First Nations knowledge about natural assets and cultural assets into asset management
- The process for developing natural asset inventories
- Efforts to expand the MNAI asset management method to coastal zone assets
- An approach to help local governments optimize their asset management to also consider species at risk and critical habitat.
2.0 Overview of the stormwater projects and methods
This first video describes early efforts to refine and replicate Gibsons’ work.
“Natural Asset Management Fundamentals – Module 2.0 Video by Roy Brooke, Adaptation Learning Network is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Next, we will hear from Michelle Molnar, MNAI’s Technical Director, about what happened in the early project cohorts, and what exactly is being measured when we speak of ‘nature’s value’.
“Natural Asset Management Fundamentals – Module 2.0a Video by Roy Brooke, Adaptation Learning Network is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Your reading resources for the week contain summary documents as well as full technical reports of the 11 of these completed projects.
2.1: Connecting with the communities
Now, we will hear directly from some of the local governments who are leading natural asset management projects.
First is James Bornemann from the Southeast Regional Service Commission in New Brunswick who will describe recently completed projects in Riverview and Riverside-Albert, N.B.
“Natural Asset Management Fundamentals – Module 2.1 Video by Roy Brooke, Adaptation Learning Network is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Second is Kris LaRose, from the Cowichan Valley Reg