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• Main Author: Ecosystems Branch
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Canada; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.231.3758; http://archive.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/risc/pubs/tebiodiv/wildlife_invstands/wsi_qa_standards_09%20_2_.pdf

support the effective, timely and integrated use of land and resource information for planning and decision-making, RISC develops and delivers focussed, cost-effective, common provincial standards and procedures for information collection, management and analysis. Representatives on the Committee and its Task Forces are drawn from the ministries and agencies of the Canadian and British Columbia governments, as well as academic, industry and First Nations stakeholders. RISC evolved from the Resources Inventory Committee (RIC), which received funding from the Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement on Forest Resource Development (FRDA II), the Corporate Resource Inventory Initiative (CRII), and Forest Renewal BC