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Understanding water, soils and land-use decisions. Three features exploring the connections between access infrastructure and resilient landscapes.

Alain Bélanger, forestry engineer

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Cover of the presentation about the invisible ditch draining our rivers

Article 1/5 · RAI · WATER · ACCESS · LAND

The invisible ditch draining our rivers

Understand how an access corridor can move water across a watershed — and how regenerative infrastructure can instead slow it, infiltrate it and keep it available.

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Article, presentation and podcast in English.

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EN · 05:18

Embracing Regenerative Access Solutions for Water Management

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Cover of the presentation on wildfire risk, water and soil

Article 2/5 · RAI · SOIL · WATER · FIRE

Wildfire risk also begins in the soil

A view of risk that begins long before the first spark: in how water moves, what the soil retains and the choices made in shaping the land.

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EN · 06:51

Understanding Wildfire Risk through Soil and Water Management

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Cover of the third RAI article: from sponge forest to sponge city

Article 3/5 · RAI · FOREST · CITY · WATER

From Sponge Forest to Sponge City

Why protecting a city from flooding requires retaining, slowing and cleaning water from the headwaters of the watershed to every street.

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Article and presentation in English. Podcast in preparation.

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