- Environment Issue Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your environmental planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the environment dimension of your ICSP. [Download Checklist]
- Environmental Risk Framework
These tools assist you in identifying potential environmental risks that should be considered with current activity in your municipality or when planning new development. These tools should be used as a guideline and may not cover all environmental risks specific to your municipality. [Download Environment Risk Framework] [Download Land Use Score Sheet]
- Sustainability Checklist
This tool will help you identify the most sustainable way forward for a project. The purpose of a project may primarily be social, economic or environmental, but it might have impacts or benefits in other areas that have not been considered in other areas. [Go to Tool]
- Community Improvement Planning Handbook
- This handbook, produced by Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, will help your municipality plan activities that effectively use, reuse and restore lands, buildings and infrastructure. The objective is to continually energize your community through the attainment of environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits achieved from more sustainable growth management and development practices. [Go to Handbook]
- Land Use Planning Toolkit
This publication looks at the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to develop a toolkit for mapping and addressing land use issues. While there is a specific county used as the case study, this strategy could be applied to any community that faces land-use planning issues. [Go to Publication]
- Guide to Managing Household Waste
Municipalities are continuously challenged to make room for a large amount of waste, some from commercial and construction activity, but much of it coming from our homes. This guide offers a number of waste reduction tips to help lessen our impact on the environment. [Download PDF]
- Pollution Prevention Planning
The information contained in this guidance manual is general information regarding the development and implementation of a pollution prevention planning activity for an industrial, commercial or institutional business. It offers practical insights, guidance and suggestions that can improve, or at least initiate discussions on, your approach to environmental management. [Download PDF]
- Planning for a Disaster Resistant Community
This document, produced by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and APA (American Planning Association), is from a disaster planning workshop held in 2004. It contains a collection of PowerPoint slides that cover issues such as identifying hazards, risks and stakeholders, as well as a number of mitigation strategies. [Download PDF]
- Contents of a Disaster Plan
- This webpage offers a brief outline of the key components to a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan. [Go to Website]
- Alberta Environment Pollution Prevention and Conservation
Pollution prevention follows the same philosophy as crime prevention, disease prevention and accident prevention: 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'. Pollution Prevention means using processes, practices, materials, products or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and waste or environmental disturbance, and reduce risk to human health or the environment. On this website, you will find information about Alberta Environment's approach to pollution prevention, how these ideas can be incorporated into an environmental management system, components of a pollution prevention plan, and Alberta's involvement in pollution prevention initiatives. There are also some tips for preventing pollution and links to publications and resources. [Go to Website]
- The Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention
This site hosts an extensive listing of pollution prevention resources. [Go to Website]
- Community Risk Assessment Toolkit
The Community Risk Assessment (CRA) Toolkit is part of the wider ProVention-supported 'Community Risk Assessment and Action Planning' project. ProVention is a global coalition of organizations dedicated to increasing the safety of vulnerable communities and to reducing the impacts of disasters in developing countries. The toolkit aims at strengthening current community level risk assessment practice and advocates for local level risk assessment that will inform and influence disaster risk management decisions, policies and plans at sub-national and national levels. It provides a number of case studies and methodologies. [Go to Toolkit]
- Evacuation Checklist
- This is a quick reference checklist of things that should be assessed in an emergency situation. This includes evacuation needs, infrastructure assessment, and warning or information releases. [Download Checklist - Word Document]
- FEMA: Planning Ahead
This website offers information on how to plan for environmental hazards and disasters. There are also a number of mitigation best practices and case studies provided. [Go to Website]
- Sustainable Urban Landscapes Typology
- Through researching various communities and neighbourhoods, this document presents a number of sustainable neighbourhood patterns. The sustainability factors considered are: Walkability, Vehicle Kilometres Travelled, Affordability, Housing Mix, and Effective Permeable Area. [Download PDF]
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