Company Overview

ESSA Technologies Ltd. is an innovative environmental consulting company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in Victoria, Toronto, Ottawa, and staff in Hanoi, Vietnam. Established in 1979, ESSA has grown to become a world leader in the field of environmental consulting and decision support. It has achieved this position by consistently providing clients with the information they need to make improved decisions for a more sustainable future. Our experience includes over 1, 200 projects in 33 countries around the world.

ESSAs strong multidisciplinary team of researchers, scientists, trainers, and social development and gender specialists scope out and define problems with clients, assemble an appropriate team of technical experts and stakeholders, and resolve issues within a facilitated environment. Our state-of-the-art computer models and analytical tools allow us to produce insightful reports which clearly describe environmental challenges and possible solutions.

The key to our success is a unique and rich combination of scientific expertise, advanced tools for systems analysis, and innovative communications techniques. We sell ideas, tools, and disciplinary expertise; our dedicated and knowledgeable team of scientists fills a niche in the consulting field. We work together in interdisciplinary teams with our clients, applying quantitative methods and qualitative concepts to resolve complex natural resource and environmental management problems.

We empower our clients with the tools necessary to be self- sufficient. Through a dedication to excellence and innovation, ESSA staff have developed unique abilities to blend the technical and human resources necessary to solve complex environmental problems. For resource management problems, several of our analytical tools now include a spatially explicit, dynamic simulation model linked to a GIS database. For resolving difficult management choices, we have helped our clients by integrating alternative hypotheses and ecological models into a formal decision analysis framework. On the human side, we work with groups to build and harness analytical tools in a spirit of joint problem solving, building trust and creativity within our clients institutions, and among all stakeholders.

Some of the services and products we offer include:

• Landscape and stand level forest planning tools;
• Carbon budget modelling;
• Decision support systems for fisheries and wildlife

(simulation models and databases);

• Environmental Information Systems including training in system

design and development;

• Adaptive Management coaching, training and facilitation;
• Technical facilitation and decision analysis;
• Mediation, multi-stakeholder consultation;
• Monitoring plans and experimental design;
• Environmental and social impact assessment;
• Environmental management; and
• Capacity building in environment.

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Legal Name: Essa Technologies Ltd.

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• Analytical Tools, Decision Analysis Frameworks, Facilitation And Capacity Building.
• Environmental Products And Services
• Gis Enabled Dec. Support Syst. For Env. Plan/Mgmt
• Gis Enabled Mil. Range Scheduling & Mgmt. Syst.
• Protected Area Systems Overview Application
• Telsa
• Vddt

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