Solutions
Solutions Built Around Decisions
Ekoya’s services are organized around the decisions clients need to make—not around software or isolated technical methods. Six connected areas turn ecological and spatial evidence into plans, policy, investment, and action.
Understand natural assets & ecosystem services
We identify the ecosystems, functions, and benefits that support you, and show where they are generated and received.
- Decision challenge
- Land, communities, operations, and economies all depend on nature — but the ecosystems, functions, and benefits that support them are rarely mapped or named.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- What natural assets do we have, and where?
- Which ecosystem services support us, and who benefits?
- Where are we most dependent on nature?
- Relevant clients
- Governments, farmers, land managers, businesses, and conservation organizations
- Related projects
- Okanagan · Canadian Prairies
- Services
- Natural asset inventories
- Ecosystem-service mapping
- Natural-capital baselines
- Carbon storage & sequestration assessment
- Hydrological & water-regulation services
- Pollination & agricultural ecosystem services
- Urban cooling & urban-forest benefits
- Ecological-condition & land-cover change
- Nature-dependency & impact screening
- Beneficiary & equity analysis
- Methods
- GIS & spatial analysis
- Ecosystem-service modelling (InVEST)
- Remote sensing & Earth observation
- Landscape metrics
- Typical deliverables
- Spatial baselines & inventories
- Ecosystem-service & beneficiary maps
- Natural-capital summaries
Plan climate-resilient landscapes & operations
We show how these systems interact and identify practical adaptation pathways for land and operations.
- Decision challenge
- Climate, land use, ecosystems, and operations interact in ways that are hard to anticipate — leaving adaptation choices unclear.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- Where are we most vulnerable to climate change?
- How will land-use and climate scenarios play out?
- What adaptation actions make sense, and where?
- Relevant clients
- Municipalities, agencies, farmers, land managers, and nature-dependent businesses
- Related projects
- Peace Region · Wood Buffalo
- Services
- Climate vulnerability & risk assessment
- Adaptation pathways
- Land-use scenarios
- Watershed & riparian resilience
- Agricultural resilience
- Urban-forest & green-infrastructure planning
- Drought, heat, flood & erosion assessment
- Wildfire-related ecological assessment
- Operational risks linked to land & natural systems
- Methods
- Climate-risk & vulnerability assessment
- Scenario analysis
- Spatial modelling
- Statistical analysis
- Typical deliverables
- Vulnerability & risk maps
- Adaptation pathway plans
- Green-infrastructure strategies
Support biodiversity & ecological connectivity
We reveal how landscape structure and ownership shape biodiversity, connectivity, and where action matters.
- Decision challenge
- Habitat, ownership, landscape structure, and ecological flows shape biodiversity and land-use decisions — but are seldom analysed together.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- Where is habitat most valuable and most at risk?
- How connected is the landscape, and where are the gaps?
- Where should we protect, restore, or develop?
- Relevant clients
- Governments, conservation organizations, land trusts, and parks
- Related projects
- Okanagan · Canadian cities
- Services
- Biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning
- Ecological connectivity & corridor planning
- Fragmentation analysis
- Habitat prioritization
- Public–private land analysis
- Conservation planning
- Restoration-opportunity mapping
- Development decision support
- Biodiversity indicators & monitoring
- Methods
- Connectivity & fragmentation analysis
- Spatial prioritization
- Landscape metrics
- GIS & remote sensing
- Typical deliverables
- Connectivity & priority maps
- Restoration-opportunity maps
- Biodiversity indicators
Design & prioritize nature-based solutions
We move from broad NbS ideas to prioritized, feasible, and measurable interventions.
- Decision challenge
- Nature-based solutions often stay broad and aspirational — never becoming place-specific, fundable, or measurable.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- Where would nature-based solutions deliver the most?
- What is feasible, and in what order?
- How do we make this fundable and measurable?
- Relevant clients
- Governments, conservation partners, farmers, and businesses
- Related projects
- Canadian Prairies · Comox Valley
- Services
- NbS opportunity assessment
- Protection, restoration & improved-management portfolios
- Climate, water, carbon, biodiversity & community co-benefits
- Spatial prioritization
- Preliminary feasibility
- Implementation sequencing
- Funding readiness & governance pathways
- Partnerships, indicators & monitoring
- Methods
- Multi-criteria decision analysis
- Spatial prioritization
- Cost & feasibility screening
- Stakeholder engagement
- Typical deliverables
- Prioritized NbS portfolios
- Feasibility & sequencing plans
- Funding & governance concepts
Integrate nature into planning, policy & business decisions
We translate evidence into the plans, policies, processes, and investments that shape real outcomes.
- Decision challenge
- Technical evidence too often stops short of the plans, policies, and investments that actually shape outcomes.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- How do we build nature into our plans and policies?
- What does the evidence mean for our decisions?
- Where should we invest, and how do we align funding?
- Relevant clients
- Governments, businesses, and regional partnerships
- Related projects
- Comox Valley · Canadian Prairies
- Services
- Land-use & official community plan support
- Natural asset integration
- Climate plans & biodiversity strategies
- Planning guidelines & policy review
- Decision frameworks
- Operational risk summaries
- Nature-positive action planning
- Investment prioritization & funding alignment
- Workshops & executive briefings
- Methods
- Policy review
- Decision-framework development
- Knowledge translation
- Facilitation & engagement
- Typical deliverables
- Plan & policy inputs
- Decision frameworks
- Executive briefings & action plans
Measure progress & communicate credible outcomes
We build transparent baselines and repeatable systems to track ecological and operational progress.
- Decision challenge
- Without transparent baselines and repeatable systems, progress is hard to track and harder to prove.
- Questions Ekoya can help answer
- Are our actions working?
- How do we track change credibly over time?
- How do we communicate results to funders and the public?
- Relevant clients
- All audiences — especially those reporting to funders, boards, or the public
- Related projects
- Canadian Prairies · Okanagan
- Services
- Indicators & report cards
- Baselines & change detection
- Repeatable GIS workflows
- Dashboards & portfolio summaries
- Nature-positive performance tracking
- Reports, policy briefs, maps & infographics
- Public-facing communication
- Monitoring & evaluation
- Methods
- Change detection
- Indicator design
- Repeatable GIS workflows
- Data visualization
- Typical deliverables
- Baselines & indicators
- Report cards & dashboards
- Monitoring & evaluation frameworks
How we work
Rigorous methods, explained plainly
Behind every deliverable is a transparent, repeatable method. We lead with your decision — not the software — but here is the toolkit we draw on.
Spatial analysis & GIS
Mapping natural assets, services, and change with professional GIS and reproducible workflows.
Remote sensing & Earth observation
Using satellite and aerial data to see land cover, condition, and change over time.
Ecosystem-service modelling
Established, well-documented models (such as InVEST) to estimate where services form and flow.
Landscape metrics & connectivity
Quantifying structure, fragmentation, and ecological flows across a landscape.
Spatial prioritization & scenarios
Comparing options and futures to focus effort where it matters most.
Statistical analysis · R & Python
Transparent, repeatable analysis and data pipelines you can trust and re-run.
Multi-criteria decision analysis
Weighing conservation, production, cost, and risk in a structured, transparent, traceable, and clearly documented way.
Engagement & knowledge translation
Turning technical results into plain-language products people can act on.
Policy review & planning support
Connecting evidence to plans, policies, and the decisions they shape.
Start with the decision
Not sure which solution you need?
You don’t need to know the method. Describe the place, the decision, and the outcome — Ekoya will map it to the right approach.