Integrated Landscape Management

With vastly expanding urbanization, increasing population growth, and unprecedented industrial development, managing the landscape for sustainability and future generations is an increasingly complex endeavour.

Regulatory frameworks and operational practices need to be designed to address cumulative effects of multiple impacts, including forestry, recreation, oil and gas, agriculture, municipal infrastructure, and natural disturbance.

Landscape management tools for sustainability

Our Integrated Landscape Management team helps build sustainable resource management capacity through research, development, and deployment of scientifically valid landscape management tools:

• regional landscape management framework supported by a suite of decision support systems that integrate the use of information technology into regional landscape management
• financial instruments, such as offset credits, that create markets for ecological goods & services
• science-based indicators, monitoring techniques and best practices for sustainable ecosystem management
• practical, cost-effective reclamation and remediation practices and measures of reclamation success for sites disturbed by industrial development

Programs

• Aboriginal internship
• Biodiversity monitoring
• Ecological conservation management
  
• Environmental policy research
• Land-use management systems
• Land reclamation

Partnerships

We work for and in partnership with organizations such as:

• Alberta Aboriginal Relations
• Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
• Alberta Conservation Association
• Alberta Environment
• Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
• Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation
• City of Calgary
• City of Edmonton
• Cumulative Environmental Management Association
• Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.
• Ducks Unlimited
• Manning Diversified
• Forest Resources Improvement Association of Alberta
• Fur Institute of Canada
• Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Government of Northwest Territories
• Parks Canada
• Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
• Shell Canada
• Syncrude Canada Ltd.
• University of Alberta
• University of Victoria