Our Services for Municipalities.

Our approach to climate change adaptation is based on an in-depth understanding of current and future climate issues, and their impact on living and natural environments. 

We pay particular attention to the design of the action plan, taking care to propose an appropriate and realistic number of adaptation measures, prioritized according to scientific recommendations and the constraints specific to each municipal organization. 

Our aim is to achieve land-use planning that is adapted, resilient and sustainable, and that optimizes the benefits of targeted adaptation measures in an equitable way.

Our support in urban and natural forest management is based on our unique expertise in forest ecosystems and the development of cutting-edge analyses for resilience assessment, incorporating the scientific approach of functional diversity.  

Functional diversity, based on the characteristics or functional traits of trees, makes it possible to assess the risks to which a tree community is exposed more accurately than simply measuring specific biodiversity. 

Thanks to our stand health diagnostics and our assessment of the ecosystem services provided by urban and natural forests, we design planting, restoration and conservation strategies adapted to all environments. 

Find out how we are promoting the resilience of Rosemère's urban forest

Conservation of natural environments is one of the key areas of expertise of our team, which has carried out numerous prioritization analyses of conservation sites, based on criteria aligned with the objectives of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and best practices from the scientific literature, particularly in terms of ecological connectivity. 

Our most comprehensive approach includes :

1. Identifying areas of high conservation value

2. Prioritizing these areas

3. Development of conservation scenarios to compare and maximize the benefits of the final strategy chosen. 

Find out more about our exercise to identify priority conservation areas in the Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal.

Valuing natural environments as municipal assets means recognizing that green spaces, forests, rivers, lakes and wetlands have multiple benefits for communities, and that their management must be planned to guarantee their protection.

To help recognize the value of natural environments, Habitat in-depth expertise in assessing the ecosystem services provided by these natural assets. Our teams specialize in quantifying the benefits these environments provide (such as air purification, flood prevention, and carbon sequestration) and, when necessary, we translate these benefits into economic terms.   

Thanks to these analyses, Habitat enables municipalities and urban development stakeholders to make informed decisions on land use and development.