Land Management
Land management involves the systematic and sustainable administration of land resources to optimize their use, conservation, and productivity while considering environmental, social, and economic factors.
- Project
Enabling Housing Choice through Policy Refinement, Integration & Collaboration
Many rural Alberta communities have a critical shortage of housing options but building housing in these communities is a huge challenge. Without adequate housing of all types, many small communities cannot retain youth, attract new businesses, workers, and residents, or prevent homelessness. This negatively impacts communities’ ability to grow and prosper. Yet new housing development is continually hampered by inadequate, outdated, or just plain poor municipal policies. This happens in part because small municipalities usually rely on outside contractors to create their policies, and in part because councils lack the capacity and knowledge to accurately understand the big picture for their community. This creates a confusing, fractured policy system, and huge delays for development which severely limit the growth and availability of local housing stock.
- Project
Building Capacity for Land Matching in Alberta to Support Land Transactions
Supports land access and transition for landholders and land-seekers, building momentum towards a pilot Land Matching program.
- Project
Inventory, Impact and Infills: The Value of Trees
Enables better land use planning by developers and landowners through research and education on the beneficial climate and ecosystem services of trees.
- Project
31st Annual Emerald Awards
Sponsors the Land Awards, recognizing projects and initiatives that demonstrate excellence in sustainable land use.
- Project
Consultation to Summer Villages on Management and Restoration of Public, Forested Lands
Provides direct education and professional support to Summer Villages on proper management of trees and forests in a rural community setting increasing natural resilience and property values.
- Project
Take the Initiative: Exploring Innovations and Resiliency In Community Planning
Connects planners, elected officials and related professionals to enable better land use planning and decision-making in all municipalities across the province of Alberta.
- Project
Advancing the Rural Alberta Real Estate Market Through Innovative Local Co-operatives
Real estate prices in rural communities are dependent upon two interrelated factors: the availability of good jobs, and the availability of a variety of services that make a community a desirable place to live. It is well known that rural communities have, for at least 2-3 decades, faced significant job losses and population decline in the face of globalization, the competitive pressure for economies of scale in agricultural production, and, most recently the fossil fuel industry downturn.
- Project
APPI 2021 Virtual Conference Evolution
Furthers member education in policy that supports community development while providing diversified housing options that support all demographics.
- Project
Creating a Collaborative Across Alberta's 5 Land Trusts
Increases collaboration across Alberta’s land trusts to better support landowners, improve regional land use planning, and build a greater understanding of the trust model within the real estate sector.
- Project
Enhancing Rural and Regional Real Estate through Community Learning
Residential, commercial, and industrial real estate are crucial to rural economic revitalization. This initiative will create learning resources for related professionals and the public in respect to the role that real estate can play in the economic, environmental and social recovery of rural and regional Alberta. This will help communities across the province design their own future – a future in which Alberta communities are healthy, sustainable, resilient, and safe. The resources and evidence-based best practices will be shared with communities across the province using a three-part delivery system consisting of: 1) Design charettes or workshops, 2) Online modules to supplement the workshops, and 3) Some material will be shared as open educational resources via the University’s social media channels.
NewsImproving Water Quality to Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems
By Olds College Centre for Innovation
