The Importance of Modelling for Bringing Biodiversity into Land-use Planning
Alberta's Land-use Framework (2008) defined a change to cumulative effects (CE) based management to deal with the competition that population increase and development activities were having for natural landscapes. The presentation is based on Alberta's Biodiversity Management System (BMS) which defines the steps necessary for bringing biodiversity into any cumulative effects based land-use planning to balance social, economic and environmental (SEE) values. Within this process, modelling is needed to approximate biodiversity indicator reference points; project CE based trajectories of biodiversity indicator outcomes into the future; test the tools that could be used to control effects of development; and likely in the future to help assess monitoring results.
