Alberta is a dynamic province in Canada that has been experiencing rapid economic and population growth over the last decade. Alberta's Land Use Framework (2008) is the overarching policy for how the impacts of growth will be managed, with a focus on regional planning, and the management of cumulative effects within a watershed context. In 2009, Alberta passed the Alberta Land Stewardship Act which created the legal support for the LUF, and included enabling legislation for a number of market based “conservation and stewardship tools†that could be used to achieve conservation objectives on private and public lands. Implementation of these tools requires consideration of a number of design issues to ensure that environmental markets live up to the desired goal of meeting conservation objectives in a cost effective manner. In this talk we outline the key challenges, focusing primarily on issues related to coordination and aggregation of individual decisions within markets for the management of cumulative effects over time.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.