DOWNLOAD: Comox Valley Eco-Asset Management Symposium – Discovering Nature’s Infrastructure Potential (Feb 2017)
Look at Development Differently
According to David Stapley, Program Manager with the Comox Valley Conservation Partnership, “The Comox Valley on Vancouver Island is facing a long list of challenges 
as more frequent and intense winter storms and summer droughts overwhelm engineered infrastructure and natural systems (that have been degraded over time by land use activities).”
“It is feast AND famine! Now, the four local governments in the valley are facing a total cost approaching $200 million for proposed engineered infrastructure solutions to these problems,” he reports.
Moment of Truth for a Changing Climate
On March 14-15th 2017, the 22 environmental and ratepayer groups comprising the Comox Valley Conservation Partnership are hosting a symposium to explore less expensive ‘design with nature’ solutions. Sponsors include the City of Courtenay, Comox Valley Regional District, Village of Cumberland and Real Estate Foundation of BC.
The symposium spotlight will be on the potentially powerful and cost-effective role that ecosystem services can play in an infrastructure strategy.
Sustainable Watershed Systems,
through Asset Management
“The Symposium will introduce participants to a whole-system, water balance approach for restoration of watershed health. Sustainable Watershed Systems, through Asset Management is based on this premise: natural 
watershed systems are infrastructure assets – we must manage and protect them as such,” states Kim Stephens, Executive Director, Partnership for Water Sustainability in BC. He is one of the keynote speakers.
“Starting in November 2015, the Partnership has presented the vision for Sustainable Watershed Systems, through Asset Management to an array of audiences in variety of forums and media.”
“The purpose of the Symposium is to build local knowledge and interest in how to apply eco-asset management principles at the local level,” adds Tim Ennis, Executive Director, Comox Valley Land Trust.
“The Symposium is very much about setting in motion a mind-set change. It is therefore essential that everyone steps back and sees the big picture.”
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