Your community relies on natural assets every day: rivers and aquifers that supply drinking water, wetlands and forests that manage runoff, beaches that reduce erosion, and natural spaces that support recreation and tourism.

These assets don’t stop at municipal boundaries, yet they directly affect your budgets, service delivery, and ability to secure funding under programs guided by the National Adaptation Strategy.

This hands-on workshop will show you how to link natural assets with conventional infrastructure, define service levels at a watershed scale, and come prepared to advocate for your community in discussions with provincial agencies, landowners, and funding bodies.

Using your own community as a case study, you will:

• Map connections between natural and built assets for integrated management.
• Apply a practical, intuitive tool (co-designed by CCNB and AIM Network) to assess ecosystem services to your community.
• Identify the natural asset(s) most critical to your service delivery and define the risks to those assets under climate change, growth, and decisions by other jurisdictions. 
• Build strategies to present findings to council and secure buy-in for protective action.
• Understand how to use this information in discussions with other agencies (provincial land owners, transportation departments and funding agencies)

You’ll leave with concrete skills to reduce risks, lower costs, and strengthen your community’s case for funding.

This workshop is delivered through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal
Fund and the Government of Canada.