• Feature Projects
  • Musqueam Comprehensive Community Plan
  • Coquitlam Water Use Plan
  • Central Okanagan Regional Growth Strategy
  • North Okanagan Regional District Regional Growth Strategy
  • Comox Official Community Plan and Zoning Update
  • Musqueam Heart of the Community Development Plan Concept
  • Driftpile First Nation Tourism Opportunities Study
  • Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning
  • Transport Canada Case Studies
  • Comox Valley Regional District Regional Growth Strategy
  • Moving From Crisis to Hope: KHFN Comprehensive Community Plan
  • Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Economic Development Opportunities Project
  • Tla’amin Land Use Plan
  • Active Transportation in Canada: a Resource and Planning Guide
  • Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park Area Development Plan
  • Land Evaluation and Acquisition Framework (LEAF) Project
  • Planning for Climate Change
  • Alberta Métis Oral History & Traditional Land Use Project
  • Alberta Métis Non-Market Valuation Analysis
• Our Projects
  • Community & Regional Planning
  • First Nations & Métis Planning
  • Local Economic Development
  • Land Use Planning
  • Healthy communities
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Natural Resources Planning
  • Climate Change
  • Traditional Use Studies
  • Non-market Valuation
  • Strategic Planning
  • Decision Support
  • Community Engagement
  • Training & Capacity Building
  • Prioritization & Trade-offs
• Awards
• Publications
  • Strategic Planning
  • Decision Support
  • Community & Regional Planning
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Local Economic Development
  • Environmental and Resource Management
  • First Nations & Métis Planning
• Clients
  • International
  • Government (Canada)
  • Government (United States)
  • Private Sector
  • Non-Profit
  • First Nations/Métis

EcoPlan’s work has been recognized with the following awards

2011 Planning Institute of B.C. Award for Excellence in Planning Practice

EcoPlan and the Musqueam Indian Band were acknowledged for this award for We Are of One Heart and Mind: Musqueam Comprehensive Community Plan. The culmination of five years of planning work, We Are of One Heart and Mind is the community’s guiding plan; the plan clearly illustrates how Musqueam will become a self-sufficient, self-governing Nation and a sustainable and healthy community. For more information on this project, please click here.

2011 Planning Institute of B.C. Award for Excellence in Research and New Directions in Planning

William Trousdale, Dr. Robin Gregory and Dr. Tim McDaniels were recognized for their work on non-market valuation approaches to cultural losses. This work developed and refined a new approach to help aboriginal communities address the issue of environmental damages, supporting negotiations and mediations as well as being tested in the courts. For more information on this project, please click here.

2011 Planning Institute of B.C. Award for Excellence in Small Town and Rural Planning

Working with Urban Strategies, Ear to the Ground Planning and the Comox Valley Regional District, EcoPlan was recognized for their part in an innovative Regional Growth Strategy for the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. For more information on this project, please click here.

2011 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in Planning – Planning Publications (Honorable Mention)

EcoPlan, UN-HABITAT and Compass Resource Management were acknowledged for this award for developing a planning manual that employs a value-based strategic planning processes to help solve the complex issues of climate change adaptation and mitigation. For more information on this project, please click here.

2010 Planning Institute of B.C. Award for Excellence in Comprehensive Planning & Policy

EcoPlan and the Sliammon First Nation were acknowledged with this award for work done on an integrated Land Use Plan for Sliammon’s two major reserves. For more information on this project, please click here.

2010 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in Recreation Planning (Honorable Mention)

EcoPlan and the Musqueam First Nation were acknowledged with this award for community engagement and site planning.

2010 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in Planning Publications (Honorable Mention)

William Trousdale, Dr. Robin Gregory and Dr. Tim McDaniels were recognized for their article on compensating aboriginal cultural losses through non-market valuation analysis. For more information on this project, please click here.

2009 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in International Development

Working with UNDP and the Palestinian Ministries of Local Government and Planning, EcoPlan established the first comprehensive process roadmap for District planning in occupied Palestinian territory.

Canadian Institute of Planners 2007 Award for Planning Excellence in Rural/ Small Town Planning

Planning Institute of British Columbia 2007 Award for Excellence in Planning

EcoPlan and the Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nations, were acknowledged with these two awards for work done on an integrated community planning process which resulted in a long-term community vision that articulates a path towards becoming a healthy, sustainable community that is culturally vibrant and economically sound. For more information on this project, please click here.

Canadian Institute of Planners 2007 Award for Planning Excellence in Economic Development

Working with UN-Habitat, EcoPlan was awarded the 2007 CIP Award for Planning in Economic Development for the guide series Promoting Economic Development Through Strategic Planning. The training series presents an innovative method for helping local governments face the challenges, opportunities and growing responsibilities in addressing the economic health of local areas while ensuring integration with other ongoing social and environmental sustainability initiatives. For more information on this project, please click here.

Travel and Tourism Research Association Boeing Award

EcoPlan received this award in 1996 for a project entitled “Sustainable Tourism Planning with Multiple Objective Decision Analysis: A Case Study of the Guimara Farm Tourism Pilot Project.”

EcoTourism Showcase 2000 Award

The EcoTourism Showcase award recognizes excellence in organizations supporting ecotourism in the Americas. EcoPlan was a contributor to the project which one this award for work in the Maquipucuna Reserve, an 11,000-acre private reserve founded in 1988 to protect one of the last remaining patches of cloud forest in northwestern Ecuador. This ecotourism project was implemented in association with the Fundación Maquipucuna, a local conservation organization, as an alternative to resource depletion.