Alberta By Design: A blueprint for an effective la

Alberta is at a turning point with respect to land and resource management. There is a broad consensus among Albertans familiar with land-use issues in the province that the current system of planning and decision-making urgently needs an overhaul. This report, by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, presents a practical and solutions- oriented blueprint for a new Land-Use Framework.
Steve Kennett and Rick Schneider

Criteria for Evaluating landuse initiatives

Public land management in Alberta is once again under scrutiny thanks to several policy initiatives and stakeholder consultations recently launched by the provincial government. Many stakeholder groups and individuals who pay attention to land-use issues must be wondering whether or not they should participate in this flurry of activity and how likely it is to achieve significant results.
Steve Kennett

Curing Environmental Dis-Integration

The Government of Alberta lacks the regulatory ability to manage the cumulative environmental impacts of the industrial development and other human activities now occurring across Alberta’s landscapes. A new approach to environmental decision- making is needed to avoid continued decline in key indicators of environmental quality and depletion of Alberta’s natural capital.
Danielle Droitsch, Steven A. Kennett, Dan Woynillowicz

Effects Of Economic Growth On Landscape Features A

An Examination Of The Effects Of Economic Growth On Landscape Features And Processes In Southern Alberta Using ALCES®
T. Antoniuk, B. Stelfox, M. Anielski

The Far North Science Advisory Panel. 2010. Scienc

This report describes the vast and largely intact ecological systems of the Far North, and recommends a conservation-matrix approach for land use planning. It recommends landscape-level planning, with benchmark areas and specific features of interest set aside from development, while other areas are designated for active management, and the landscape overall is planned for continuity and resilience of ecological function. Adaptive management provides a means of evaluating management strategies as climate change and economic development proceed. It will require sustained commitment to the collection and sharing of information about the Far North, including scientific and aboriginal traditional knowledge.
the Far North Science Advisory Panel

Integrated Landscape Management Modelling Workshop

Sound land-use decision-making requires that social, economic, and environmental values be balanced, and that any repercussions within these three areas due to a decision taken in another be identified and taken into account. Land-use planning and environmental impact assessments (both aspects of integrated landscape management) could be improved, and the decision-making process better informed, through the use of integrated landscape management models (ILMM).
Policy Research Institute

Land Advocate: News for Canadians living with oil

A democratic voice for landowners and the land. An advocate for more 100,000 farmers, ranchers and landowners in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. We’ll separate the oil from the gas to give you the best and most informed perspective on what’s right and what’s wrong in the oil patch.
Andrew Nikiforuk

A new method to estimate species and biodiversity

Critical to the conservation of biodiversity is knowledge of status and trends of species. To that end, monitoring programmes have reported on the state of biodiversity using ref- erence conditions as comparison. Little consensus exists on how reference conditions are defined and how such information is used to index intactness. Most use protected areas or an arbitrary year as reference. This is problematic since protected areas are often spa- tially biased, while arbitrarily defined reference years are often not sufficiently distant in time.
Scott Nielsen

Integrated Place Based Approaches for Sustainable

the Policy Research Institute

Regional Strategic Environmental Assessment in Canada - Principles and Guidance - by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment