Natural Capital
Assessing, valuing, and restoring natural resources
We’re giving clients the specific tools and design strategies they need to unlock value hidden within their assets. Our goal? To cost-effectively achieve corporate metrics, enhance corporate stewardship reputation, demonstrate sustainability, preserve social license to operate, and increase value to shareholders.
Our Natural Capital program reflects deep and broad experience and expertise in assessing, valuing, preserving, and restoring natural resources. These professional services naturally fit with the on-the-ground restoration expertise afforded by Stantec’s ecosystem restoration program. We work across many Stantec business lines (water, buildings, transportation, energy, industrial, etc.), providing customized service to both internal and external clientele. As many of Stantec’s Natural Capital clients are confidential, we take special care to respect that confidentiality.
Maximizing the value of your natural assets
Natural capital is defined as the world’s renewable and nonrenewable resources that provide a flow of goods and service to all living things. Stantec integrates natural capital into project decision-making to identify economies of scale to increase sustainability, enhance and restore valuable ecosystem services, reduce tax and environmental liabilities, protect biodiversity, increase carbon sequestration, and minimize unnecessary environmental impacts, contributing to quality of life. Learn MoreNatural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)
While the NRDA process has evolved dramatically, our approach has remained constant—we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of NRDA over the past decade. Our staff has worked in nearly every marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environment, and maintain legally and scientifically defensible standards and confidentiality while resolving natural resource liability. What sets us apart? Our understanding of regulatory drivers, our expertise, and our respected relationships with the trustees who apply the regulatory frameworks.Gary Harmon, Senior Consultant
Restoring native habitats that have been damaged or disturbed is the greatest legacy we can leave to future generations.
Brendan Player, Associate, Nature-based Carbon Solutions Team Lead
My focus is utilizing environmental restoration and innovative sensor technology to help clients achieve their goals and objectives.
Amanda Ludlow, Principal
I use nature to seek out sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
George Athanasakes, Vice President, Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental Services
We analyze natural processes driving ecological functions and incorporate these processes into designs to create self-sustaining ecosystems.
Creating a lasting legacy requires curiosity, making a daily impact, and recognizing the importance of our work in shaping the future.
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