Municipal

Municipal organizations play a key role in coordinating and accelerating the ecological transition of territories. 

At Habitat, we help clarify local ecological issues and integrate nature-based solutions at the heart of territorial planning, in order to restore ecosystem resilience and preserve biodiversity.  

A service offering tailored to municipal organizations

Our approach

We turn the latest scientific advances into concrete action. 

We gather and structure scientific data and knowledge, analyze the specific challenges of each region, and draw up customized diagnoses. We support you in your strategic land-use planning, and monitor and evaluate the strategies implemented.

Our approach adapts to the diversity of organizations, whatever their size, geographical location or economic activities. 

  • Our approach to adapting to climate change 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. 

    Find out more about our support for Climate Plans and the Oasis program. 

  • Our support in urban and natural forest management is based on our unique expertise in forest ecosystems and the development of cutting-edge vulnerability assessment analyses, 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 CommunautĂ© MĂ©tropolitaine de MontrĂ©al. 

Flagship projects

Ville de Nicolet - An ecological corridor in the heart of the city 

We drew up a turnkey action plan (10 recommendations) for the City of Nicolet, to define the optimal route and the measures to be implemented to create an ecological corridor in the heart of the city.  

Ville de Rosemère - A more resilient urban forest  

We analyzed the resilience of Rosemère's urban forest and the ecosystem services it provides, with the aim of highlighting the benefits of trees and emphasizing the importance of diversifying the functional groups present in the urban environment, in line with the functional diversity approach. 

MRC Nicolet-Yamaska - Land development scenarios

We developed a climate change adaptation strategy for the Nicolet-Yamaska RCM, taking into account carbon storage in natural environments, ecological connectivity and woodland vulnerability. We proposed 3 management scenarios to compare the gains and losses associated with the various strategies.  

Contact us to find out more about our services.

Our team is available to answer your questions and support you in your efforts to adapt to climate change and preserve biodiversity.