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  • 181. Natural resource wealth, 2010 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100311549
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Canada is endowed with substantial reserves of natural resources, from energy and minerals in the ground to accessible stands of timber in forests. This article provides a brief overview of recent trends in Canada's natural resource wealth, which reflects the current dollar value of selected natural resource reserves.
    Release date: 2011-09-20
  • 182. Economy and the environment Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-201-X201100011438
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This analytical article "Economy and the environment", provides information on the relationship between Canada's economy and environment. The report starts with a discussion of how the economy and the environment can be linked in conceptual terms (Section 2). It then presents Canada's environment in the international context (Section 3). Sections 4, 5 and 6 highlight Canada's endowment of natural resources and underlines their role in our economy with statistics on timber, energy, minerals, land and fresh water. Section 7 focuses on the flow of materials and energy between the economy and the environment with statistics on the intensity of energy use and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, Section 8 presents a selection of statistics on what households, businesses and governments are doing to reduce their impact on the environment.
    Release date: 2011-06-28
  • 183. Summertime control of temperature in Canadian homes: How Canadians keep their cool Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100211503
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study based on data from the 2009 Households and the Environment Survey, looks at the characteristics and usage of air conditioning systems and other methods of space cooling by Canadian households.

    Release date: 2011-06-22
  • 184. Settlements in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100211504
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    By studying the size and form of settlements over time it is possible to better examine their impact on the physical environment, such as consumption of land and pollution emissions. This article focuses on the characteristics of settlements in terms of land area and population, and the changes that have taken place between 2001 and 2006.

    Release date: 2011-06-22
  • 185. Temperature trends in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100111418
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This article describes annual and seasonal time series of temperature departures from normal over a 62 year period and is the second in an ongoing series of short analytical articles featuring climate related data. This and future articles in the series are the product of ongoing collaboration among Statistics Canada, Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
    Release date: 2011-03-23
  • 186. Operation and maintenance costs of drinking water plants Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100111421
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Operation and maintenance (O&M) costs associated with the acquisition and treatment of water will vary by treatment technology, annual production volumes and the type of source water processed. This study analyzes the data collected by the 2007 Survey of Drinking Water Plants to illustrate how O&M costs vary by these factors.

    Release date: 2011-03-23
  • 187. Monthly variations in drinking water production, 2005 to 2007 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201000411372
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Potable water of sufficient quality and in adequate quantities is fundamental to human health and the economy. This article examines temporal and geographic variations in drinking water production volumes.

    Release date: 2010-12-08
  • 188. Uptake of water- and energy-conservation devices in the home Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X201100111365
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In society today, many Canadians are concerned about the environment and the scarcity of resources. Consequently, many individuals and governments are seeking ways to reduce or alter energy and water consumption patterns. This article uses data from the 2007 Households and the Environment Survey to examine the association between income, education, ownership, age of dwelling and years lived at the dwelling and the use of low-volume toilets; low-flow showerheads; compact fluorescent light bulbs; programmable thermostats; and appliances bought to save energy or water.

    Release date: 2010-12-07
  • 189. Trends in glacier mass balance for six Canadian glaciers Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201000311346
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This article describes changes to the mass balance of six Canadian glaciers through time and is the first in an ongoing series of short analytical articles featuring climate related data. This and future articles are the product of ongoing collaboration among Statistics Canada, Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
    Release date: 2010-09-22
  • 190. Freshwater supply and demand in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-201-X201000011295
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This analytical article "Freshwater Supply and Demand in Canada", provides information on Canada's freshwater supply as well as the demands placed on it. New research done within Statistics Canada is complimented by information from other sources, including other federal government departments, international bodies and scientific journals.

    Section 1 of this article compares Canada's renewable water resources to those of other countries, introduces key highlights and presents a short water primer. Section 2 quantifies Canada's renewable water resources (annual water yield), shows how water yield has changed from 1971 to 2004, and presents graphs of water yield by month for four regions of the country. Section 3 quantifies economic and residential water use in Canada and concludes with an analysis of the relationship between supply and demand. A glossary of terms used in the publication is available in Section 4.

    Release date: 2010-09-13
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  • 41. Air Quality Indicators
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5127
    Description: The air quality indicators reflect the potential for long term exposure of Canadians to ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), key components of smog and two of the most common and harmful air pollutants to which people are exposed. Both the ozone and PM2.5 indicators are population weighted estimates of average concentrations of these pollutants observed by monitoring stations across Canada. Statistics Canada calculates the indicators based on monitoring data provided by Environment Canada's National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) network.
  • 42. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5129
    Description: The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions indicator reports the trend in human made greenhouse gas emissions at a national, provincial/territorial, and sectoral level for six greenhouse gases in Canada: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons, and hydrofluorocarbons.
  • 43. Biennial Drinking Water Plants Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5149
    Description: The Survey of Drinking Water Plants is conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional information related to the production of drinking water.
  • 44. Survey of Industrial Processes
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5163
    Description: The Survey of Industrial Processes (SIP) is an industry-specific business survey focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is designed to link economic data with industrial processes and environmental outcomes. The SIP collects data on operational activities and engineering processes of industrial, manufacturing, and service oriented establishments.
  • 45. Hazardous Waste Management Industry Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5199
    Description: This survey collects data on the amount of hazardous waste handled by businesses in the Canadian Hazardous Waste Management industry. The data will be used to compile a national-level estimate of the amount of hazardous waste that is processed at Canadian facilities. The data will also be used by Environment Canada to fulfill international reporting requirements under the Basel Convention.
  • 46. National Fire Information Database (NFID)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5248
    Description: The National Fire Information Database (NFID) is a pilot project with the objective of gathering ten years of microdata information on fire incidents and fire losses from provincial/territorial Fire Marshals and Fire Commissioners Offices across Canada, standardizing the data, and creating a centralized national system for the collection of fire statistics.
  • 47. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Ecosystem Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5331
    Description: Ecosystem accounts are based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework, which was adopted as an international statistical standard by the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2021. This framework complements, and builds on, the accounting for environmental assets described in the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF), which was adopted as an international standard in 2012.
  • 48. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Environmental tax statistics
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5376
    Description: The Environmental tax statistics (ETS) product is one of the elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Central Framework (SEEA-CF), which was adopted as an international standard in 2012. This product records, in monetary units, government revenues generated from environmental tax from industry, households, government institutions and non-profit organizations and gross fixed capital formation.
  • 49. Canadian indexes of social resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5431
    Description: The Canadian indexes of social resilience and vulnerability were created to provide area-based information on resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters across Canada.
  • 50. Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5450
    Description: The Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account (ECTPEA) is one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework, which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. This account provides statistics on the production and use of environmental and clean technology (ECT) products in the Canadian economy, expressed in monetary values.

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