The Land Use Podcast is your home to discussion on a wide range of land use issues affecting public policy. If you're a landowner, planner, public official, conservationist, or involved in industry, we're a home for you! We are the Alberta Land Institute and based out of the University of Alberta.
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Water Availability and Economic Development in Southern Alberta with Lorraine Nicol
Economic Development and water availability are two major priorities of Southern Albertan districts. How is economic development in these areas being impacted by factors like fully allocated basins and potential drought?
Learn more about the findings from this recently published ALI funded study with Lorraine Nicol.
Read the study below:
Closing a river basin to water allocations: Is economic development affected?
https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/267/38791
6 Mar 2026
Carbon Sink Potential of Alberta’s Boreal Forests with Fangliang He
In Alberta, boreal forests cover 60% of our land base. Understanding the composition of these forests will help us understand how much carbon our forests could store.
For more information check out these resources:
Mapping tree demographic rates and biomass of Alberta’s boreal forest
https://shorturl.at/NVOTX
How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecog.07677
3 Feb 2026
Conserving Private Land with Forrest Hisey
Conservation easements have a long history as an effective conservation tool for private landowners. Find out about the history of conservation easements in Canada and why landowners might choose to restrict their property rights in favour of conservation.
For more information check out these resources:
Provincial diffusion, national acceptance: the transfer of conservation easement policy in Canada
https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10.1139/facets-2024-0016
Forrest Hisey
https://scholarscommons.fgcu.edu/esploro/profile/forrest_hisey
The implementation of market based conservation tools under ALSA: A review
https://tinyurl.com/marketbasedconserv
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