By: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Steve Kennett

This report by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) proposes a blueprint for improving Albertans’ quality of life and ensuring environmental sustainability. The report sets out guiding principles for a new, effective land use framework. The detailed blueprint has three key elements:

• A new policy foundation for land and resource management: Implement outcome-based land and resource management that focuses on long-term sustainability and improvements in quality of life.
• A new planning process enshrined in legislation: Establish the rules of the game for land-use planning in new legislation that makes integrated regional planning the centerpiece of the land use framework.
• Tools to manage cumulative impacts: Give planners the tools they need to achieve landscape-scale environmental objectives, including limits on cumulative impacts.

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Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Energy Watch, Oil Sands