{"id":1105,"date":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-442\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:30","slug":"innovation-anthology-442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/12\/15\/innovation-anthology-442\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #442:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 442.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Cooking Lake &#8211; Beaverhills Morraine in Strathcona County is a sensitive ecosystem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere\u2019s also tremendous pressure from urban sprawl, with a growing number of high income people who want to live on country estates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Beaverhills Initiative is a partnership between five jurisdictions that is investigating economic instruments as a means conserve the landscape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEconomist Dr. Marian Weber with Alberta Innovates Technology Futures explains.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR MARIAN WEBER:  <\/b><em>   So the objective is to increase the amount of area of intact natural habitat in the Cooking Lake Moraine area and also to increase connectivity of habitat and increase the number of wetlands that are conserved.   And we would do that by not allowing subdivision or trying to discourage subdivision in that area and moving that density into areas more appropriate.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Dr. Marian Weber, Strathcona County is already very aggressive on conservation policies.  So her challenge is to demonstrate that economic instruments such as transfer development credits on top of these other programs will lead to significant enough conservation benefits.\n <\/p.\n\n\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-12-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Cooking Lake &#8211; Beaverhills Morraine<\/b> in Strathcona County is a sensitive ecosystem. There\u2019s also tremendous pressure from urban sprawl.   According to AITF economist <b>Dr. Marian Weber,<\/b> the Beaverhills Initiative is a partnership between five jurisdictions that is investigating <b>economic instruments<\/b> as a means conserve the landscape.   <em>(Alberta Innovates Technology Futures)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,33,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-economy","category-environment","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}