The Adaptation Primers are just that – introductory books that provide basic information on the most complex challenge facing decision-makers in this first half of the 21st century. Primer Three provides an overview of the opportunities to create resilient communities that enhance public well-being, integrate nature, and ensure a prosperous future.
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The adaptation primers* Primer 3: creating resilient communities
2018 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC
The adaptation primers* Primer 4: facing rising waters
2018 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC
The Adaptation Primers are just that – introductory books that provide basic information on the most complex challenge facing decision-makers in this first half of the 21st century. Primer Four focuses on the options for response to rising waters, ranging from persisting in place to migration to better circumstances.
The Climate Atlas of Canada
2025 – Tool

Prairie Climate Centre
The Climate Atlas of Canada is an interactive tool for citizens, researchers, businesses, and community and political leaders to learn about climate change in Canada. The articles, maps, and videos in the atlas tell a compelling story: climate change is here, it’s a serious challenge, and we can take action. The atlas can help you make sense of climate change.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
2025 – Tool

TCLF
The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF), established in 1998, connects people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. TCLF achieves this mission through the ongoing development of its four core programs.
The Power of Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being
2023 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC
Landscape architects impact public health through the stewardship of nature and the design of the built environment. We hold an exciting, yet challenging, opportunity to make a real difference in the health and well-being of the people in the communities in which we practice.
The Power of Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being
2023 – White Paper

CSLA/AAPC
Growing evidence supports the benefits of nature on mental health, highlighting the need for landscape architects' involvement. The diversity in the practice enables landscape architects to actively contribute to improving the health and well-being of Canadians by making natural spaces more accessible.
The Value of Nature in a Changing World.. how you can make a difference
2021 – Webinar

University of Guelph
Colleen Mercer Clarke's Lecture at the University of Guelph on why nature plays an important role in our changing world, and what landscape architects can accomplish towards reducing emissions, sustaining nature, and improving well-being.
Towards Zero Emission Business Operations: A Landscape Architect’s Guide to Reducing the Climate Impacts of Offices
2023 – Tool

ASLA
The guide is designed to help landscape architecture firms of all sizes navigate the transition to zero emission offices more easily. It outlines more than 110 strategies landscape architecture firms can implement to reduce their business and project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50-65% by 2030 and achieve zero emissions by 2040. The guide provides best practice strategies relevant for firms that rent or own their offices. It offers firms ways to: Measure their carbon footprint, Develop a climate action plan to reduce emissions, and Take actions to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
UNESCO World Heritage List
2025 – Tool

UNESCO
"The UNESCO World Heritage List includes 1248 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
These include 972 cultural, 235 natural and 41 mixed properties in 170 States Parties. As of October 2024, 196 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention."
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2007 – White Paper

United Nations
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People UNDRIP was adopted by the general assembly in 2007. In 2021, it was signed into law in Canada through the passage of Bill C-15, which became the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The Act explicitly confirms that the UN Declaration can be used to interpret Canadian laws — Canadian courts have already been using the UN Declaration in exactly this way.
Watershed Health and Resilience Indicators
2025 – White Paper

SFU-ACT
Watershed Health and Resilience Indicators: Strengthening Indigenous Co-Governance and Low Carbon Resilience in Canada's Watersheds compares nine western and seven Indigenous-led watershed assessment frameworks to better understand indicators used to evaluate watershed health; it supports the advancement of more holistic and place-based understanding of health and resilience in Canada’s watersheds. The research illustrates how Indigenous Knowledge systems and co-governance arrangements can support timely place-based strategies for ensuring the resilience of the ecological, cultural, and societal benefits that flow from healthy and resilient watersheds to communities.
Working With Nature as Normal
2024 – Webinar

CSLA/AAPC
Joanna Eyquem discusses progress and examples of efforts to mainstream consideration of nature-based solutions, ranging from strategic approaches and technical guidance, to integration in municipal management and financial reporting.