News: Alberta Land Institute

April 22, 2016

Land Use 2016: Governance and Regional Planning for Sustainability

Research and consultation can inform decisions about environmental policy, but when theory must become reality, success or failure is dictated largely by the mechanisms of governance. Across Canada and around the world, different approaches have been pursued in the development of land management policy, each calling for governments at different levels –– national, provincial, regional and municipal…

April 15, 2016

Land Use 2016: Alberta’s Agriculture Industries in a Changing Context

Click here to Register for Land Use 2016! Over the past few years, it became a routine: Statistics Canada would announce that Alberta was Canada’s fastest-growing province, and that Calgary and Edmonton were among the country’s fastest-growing cities. Economic prosperity drew thousands of people from across the country, and even if changing conditions slow future growth, the footprint of this…

April 14, 2016

Wetlands Research Strategy: Supporting Engagement

What research strategy can best contribute to the understanding of wetlands in Alberta? The Government of Alberta is assisting with engagement to find out. One of three strategic directions under the Alberta Wetland Policy calls for the development of "effective tools, knowledge and capacity" around wetlands. In accordance with this objective, some funds collected for the restoration of wetlands across…

April 8, 2016

Land Use 2016: Regional Planning for Ecosystem Goods and Services

Click here to Register for Land Use 2016! Discussing our environment in the context of ecosystem services has become increasingly common in recent years, but what does that term mean, and how can it influence policy and planning? Ecosystem services are natural environmental processes that directly contribute to human society. The latter part of that definition is crucially important: all ecosystems…

February 9, 2016

Loss or Gain: New Article Published by ALI Research Team

The Alberta Land Institute's three-year project Economic Evaluation of Farmland Conversion and Fragmentation in Alberta is examining the province's agricultural landscape. Led by Principal Investigators Dr. Scott Jeffrey and Dr. Brent Swallow, along with Co-Investigators Dr. Feng Qiu and Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, this research is helping create a clearer understanding of the ways in which rapid…