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Milestone Moments in EAP History

IDEA FOR EAP SEEDED IN BEYOND THE GUIDEBOOK 2015: “My conversation with Ian Rogalski at the end of 2014 was the spark that set me off on a six-year program of applied research to develop the methodology and metrics for EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process,” recalled Tim Pringle, EAP Chair and adjunct professor at Vancouver Island University


“It was December 2014 in Victoria when Ian Rogalski, an economist with Environment Canada, attended the Partnership’s annual year-end Water Sustainability Workshop. As the legendary Erik Karlsen would often say, it takes a conversation to bring ideas forth. Ian and I had a conversation which is a key part of the story behind the story of EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process,” recalls Tim Pringle. “Fast forward to November 2015. Kim Stephens and I made a last-minute decision to seed the idea for EAP in Beyond the Guidebook 2015. It has proven to be a consequential decision.”

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WHERE EAP IS SITUATED ON THE ASSET MANAGEMENT CONTINUUM: “The ultimate vision for Sustainability Service Delivery is that communities would manage natural assets in the same way that they manage their engineered assets,” stated Glen Brown, Chair of Asset Management BC, when he unveiled the continuum idea (Dec 2015)


“Implementation of asset management along with the associated evolution of local government thinking is a continuous process, not a discrete task. We needed a way to illustrate this diagrammatically. This led us to the concept of a continuum,” explained Glen Brown at the third in the Partnership’s Water Sustainability Workshop Series. “The continuum bridges two pieces. One piece is recognition that the asset management process is founded on an incremental approach. The other piece is integration of natural capital, natural assets and watershed systems thinking.”

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IMPORTANCE OF THE PARCEL IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTEXT: “John Henneberry’s pioneering work in the United Kingdom serves as validation of how EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process, looks at streams and water assets as a system,” stated Tim Pringle, developer of the EAP methodology and an adjunct professor at Vancouver Island University


John Henneberry’s eclecticism produced real insights into the operation of land and property markets, enabling all involved to see things more clearly and differently. “Quantifying and valuing nature are complex tasks. Nature appears more fragmented because we have to slice it into categories and dice those categories into bits before we can value bits of those bits. The sum of these parts is far short of the whole and does not capture the interconnectedness and holism of nature. But nature is far too complex a thing to be treated in this way,” wrote John Henneberry.

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