ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE

Environmental resilience will focus on:

Lead: City of Calgary

YOUR INPUT

We listed the outcomes we hope to achieve for this focus area in the form below. There are one to three initiatives/actions listed to help achieve the outcome. The outcomes and initiatives/actions were developed in consultation with partners and stakeholders. We wanted to understand what you think of how important these outcomes are for Calgary.

Thank you for providing your input. The feedback from is now closed.

Your input was reviewed and themed and is included in the What We Heard Report.


1) Calgarians are aware of the role of our natural infrastructure in providing community benefits.

a. The natural infrastructure story
• Develop awareness and educational materials to help different audiences understand the relationship between natural infrastructure and city resilience, their role, and opportunities to enhance our natural infrastructure.
• Share perspectives, stories and experiences regarding actions being taken from The City and our local, regional and Indigenous related to natural infrastructure.

b. The natural infrastructure value
• Find and use valuation tools that fit Calgary’s unique environment and measure the services and other broader environmental, social and economic resilience benefits of natural infrastructure.

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How important is it for Calgary that Calgarians are aware of the role of our natural infrastructure in providing community benefits?



2) Support Calgarians through strategic investment in resilient natural infrastructure.

a. Natural asset management & decision support
• Identify and integrate our City owned natural assets into our asset management and decision making processes in order to increase the value of natural infrastructure in our overall service delivery and use investments more efficiently.

b. Natural infrastructure related policies working together
• Make sure policies related to natural infrastructure such as biodiversity, social & environmental well-being, watershed management and other related areas are all working together.

c. Natural infrastructure business case
• Integrate consideration of services, benefits and current and future risk in decisions related to natural infrastructure investment to inform a business case for natural infrastructure return-on-investment.

d. Improving and learning from natural infrastructure
• Take part in partnerships where natural infrastructure projects can be built, monitored and evaluated to provide multiple benefits and resilient value.

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How important is it for Calgary that Calgarians are supported through strategic investment in natural infrastructure?



Which, if any, other focus areas does your idea link with (Economic, Infrastructure and/or Inclusive Leadership and Decision Making)?
Also use this space tell us anything else you would like us to be aware of regarding environmental resilience?

The survey form is now closed. Thanks for your contributions.

OTHER RESILIENCE FOCUS AREAS

For information on the other focus areas, please click on each of the tiles below.