Sizing the restoration and the reclamation economy in Alberta
| dc.coverage | Canada | |
| dc.coverage | northern America | |
| dc.creator | Mansuy, N., Powter, C. B., Dixon, R. | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:56:47Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:56:47Z | |
| dc.date | 2022 | |
| dc.date | 2022-08-08T14:10:09.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T22:52:07Z | |
| dc.description | The recovery from the COVID‐19 crisis coincides with a critical opportunity to fight against ecosystem degradation and climate change by investing in the reclamation and restoration (R&R) economy. In this study, we quantify the scope of the R&R economy in the province of Alberta. A survey was distributed among R&R practitioners to quantify jobs, expenditures, and revenues of the R&R economy based on fiscal year 2018-2019. Based on 112 respondents, the survey highlights that the R&R economy in Alberta is robust and supported by a network of multidisciplinary stakeholders and businesses, composed of consultants (42.9%), industry (29.5%), government (8.9%), product and equipment suppliers (5.2%), academia (4.5%), service providers (4.5%), and NGOs (4.5%). Our results totaled 2 056 employees working at least part-time representing 1 488 full time equivalent positions. Business units range in size from one person to 400 employees and have a correspondingly wide range of revenues and expenditures, from less than CAD$50 000 to more than CAD$100 million per year. A high proportion of survey respondents (79.8%) reported an expectation of similar or increasing workload in the near future. While results highlighted reclamation had a higher profile than restoration activities, they do show that the strength of the R&R economy largely reflects, and is a result of, the regulatory framework that exists in resource-rich provinces. The socio-economic benefits of the R&R sector demonstrated in this study put in perspective the need to link regional R&R practitioner’s expertise with national and international environmental commitments on forest landscape restoration. Such linkages will increase the contribution from R&R businesses and practitioners to these commitments and will give decision-makers real life data to invest in this emerging sector as a piece of the broader green economy. Keywords: Employment, forest, landscape degradation, oil and gas, policy, revenues ID: 3480925 | |
| dc.format | 11p. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC1408EN | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cc1408en/cc1408en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/265242 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; | |
| dc.rights | Non-FAO | |
| dc.title | Sizing the restoration and the reclamation economy in Alberta | |
| dc.title | XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022 | |
| dc.type | Article |