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CARP NS Advocates an Integrated Approach to Development/Park Planning

In keeping with its strong support for a national urban park on the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes lands, CARP NS advocates an approach that integrates planning for the park with development proposals in the area.
 
The recommendation is central to CARP NS’s submission re: the Highway 102 West Corridor Special Planning Area. The full submission is available HERE.

Mission and Vision

Environment Committee – (CARP Nova Scotia)

Healthy Environment | Healthy People | Healthy Planet

  • Mission

To advocate for the responsible stewardship of Nova Scotia’s natural environment.

In the broader context of the world facing the twin global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, our mission is to advocate for environmental policy and action, by government (federal, provincial and municipal), the private (corporate and small business) and not-for-profit sectors and individual Nova Scotians, in support of:

  • protecting the ecological integrity of Nova Scotia’s natural environment; and
  • utilizing our province’s natural assets in accordance with the principles of sustainability.

Our intended focus and emphasis is on environmental issues and opportunities that are provincial in scope and/or of provincial significance. However local issues also may be considered where exceptional circumstances involve broader implications or precedent-setting circumstances.

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  • Vision
The Environment Committee, and CARP-NS, will have earned a creditable record of environmental advocacy and leadership here in Nova Scotia and have encouraged and inspired parallel efforts on the parts of other CARP chapters.
  • What We Value
  • Science-based information and analysis to inform understanding, advocacy and actions, and to serve as the essential counterbalance to political pressures, private sector self-interest and the increasing public demand for goods and services within our consumer society.
  • Openness and transparency of government in regard to legislation, policies, programs and actions, so as to limit tendencies (or deliberate attempts) to avoid public scrutiny, criticism, opposition or controversy.
  • Public consultation and stakeholder engagement to inform, support, guide and enhance government decision-making for the benefit of Nova Scotians.
  • Principled, coherent and concerted government action to address opportunities, issues and priorities that are in the greater public interest over the long term, as distinct from short-term political gain, special interest group demands or profit-taking through resource exploitation.
  • Complementary efforts of others, including individual Nova Scotians, not-for-profit organizations, the private sector and government, in assuming leadership and commitment respecting positive environmental initiative.
  • Intergenerational perspectives to maintain currency and relevancy of efforts and priorities in a constantly-evolving and fast-changing world, environmentally, economically, socially and culturally.
  • Partnership and collaboration, where the combination of energy and effort across any and all sectors can contribute to the achievement of goals and objectives of mutual benefit.
  • Diversity and inclusivity in to enable all Nova Scotians to benefit from and enjoy a healthy natural environment.
  • Two-eyed seeing as “the gift of multiple perspective treasured by many aboriginal peoples and explains that it refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing, and to using both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.” (Cheryl Bartlett, Murdena Marshall and Albert Marshall, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, November 2012.)
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