A Sustainability Strategy for Southern Alberta

What is the Southern Alberta Sustainability Strategy?
What steps are involved in completing Phase 1?
How can the public become involved?
Who do I contact for more information?

The Southern Alberta Sustainability Strategy will involve Albertans in developing a vision of the future of Southern Alberta and the desired environmental, social and economic benefits for the region, and then address the issues and follow a plan to achieve the vision.

The first phase of the Southern Alberta Sustainability Strategy -- Defining the Agenda -- will appraise the current state of the region, identify a vision, goals, and principles for sustainable development, make policy recommendations and identify the key issues that need to be addressed and in what order of priority.

1. A Southern Alberta Sustainability Strategy Steering Committee of key government personnel was formed and will meet throughout the delivery of the strategy. This steering committee is responsible for managing the project.

2. A Southern Alberta Development Group will guide the development of the content of the strategy. Membership on this group will include provincial government representatives and southern Albertans with an interest in the sustainable development of the region.

3. In the initial step of Phase 1, the province will compile air, water, land use and socio-economic data, build landscape modeling and simulation tools and gather information about important resource sectors.

4. Albertans will then review the situation appraisal and the assessment of future scenarios of the region.

5. The outcome of Phase 1 will be presented to the provincial government.

Learn more about IRM and regional strategies by visiting our Web site at www.gov.ab.ca/env/irm/index.html. The Web site includes a quarterly newsletter, IRM Connections, that discusses integrated resource management and its contributions to sustainable development in Alberta. When the public consultation process begins for the Southern Alberta Sustainability Strategy there will be opportunities for anyone who is interested to participate.

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