Published: 2019
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The MNAI team provides scientific, economic and municipal expertise to support local governments in identifying, valuing and accounting for natural assets in their financial planning and asset management programs, and in developing leading-edge, sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure. [...] Further, it may be of interest to asset managers in provincial and federal governments, natural resource companies, and universities as early evidence suggests municipal natural asset management approaches can be adapted in other decision-making contexts.1 Barriers and opportunities in current planning practices can affect the refinement, replication and scaling up of municipal natural asset manag [...] This summary report highlights the factors affecting municipal natural asset management from a planning perspective, including the role of urban planners, and the top five barriers and opportunities in professional planning norms and standards that may affect the refinement, replication, and scaling up of municipal natural asset management projects. [...] Nonetheless, the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) defines planning as: "the scientific, aesthetic and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency and well-being of urban and rural communities."4 More simply, planning consists of a wide range of public interventions, including land use designation and natur [...] They engage with the public and determine best courses of action, present to senior municipal management and Council, help shift land use designations and bylaws, and confirm how municipal natural asset management can best influence day-to-day, practical decision-making.