Brampton’s Natural Heritage and Environmental Management Strategy (NHEMS) is a proactive approach to ensure that the abundance of natural heritage and built green spaces found in the city are conserved, restored, connected and enhanced to support the health and diversity of the natural and built environments.
To do so, this Strategy examines the city’s natural heritage with a full systems approach that recognizes the challenges and opportunities presented by conserving natural features, functions and linkages in an urban setting. The NHEMS addresses the implementation, management and enhancement of the city’s open space, green infrastructure and urban forest that contribute to sustaining the natural heritage system (NHS) and ecosystem services. As such the Strategy contributes to, and informs the objectives within the City’s Strategic Plan, Official Plan policies, as well as contributes to achieving the vision of Brampton Grow Green, the City’s first Environmental Master Plan.
