2006
Conference Programme

 

Abstract Book

 

Sustainable Uplands:
Future Scenarios for People, Environment, and Landscape:
A Future Vision Conference and workshop for the Uplands 

held by 
The International Centre for the Uplands - Cumbria
30th May to 1st June 2006
Day 1 Agenda: Tuesday 30 May 2006

Introductions

09:15-10:15     Registration and Coffee

10:15-10:30     Welcome by Chair, Eric Robson Chair of Cumbria Tourist Board

Keynote Scene Setting

10:30-11:15     Keynote 1: Choices for the Cumbrian uplands

Sir Martin Holdgate, CB PhD FIBiol

11:15-11:45           Coffee Break

11:45-12:30     Keynote 2: Rural Development and the uplands: Recent trends and future challenges

Professor Neil Ward, University of Newcastle

12:30-12:40     Conference Aims – Ian Soane, ICU-C

12:40-14:00           Lunch

Scenarios

14:00-14:20     Upland Farming and Landscape Management Futures

Chris Hauserman, Defra

14:20-14:50     Landscapes for living and Leisure

Professor Nigel Curry, University of the West of England

14:50-15.20     Valuing the Benefit of Uplands

Professor Nick Hanley, University of Stirling

15:20-15:50           Break

Processes and Drivers of Change

15:50-16:20     Upland Britain: cultural processes and landscape change through time

Professor Ian Whyte, University of Lancaster

16:20 -16:50    Global Recognition of Special Landscapes – Reconciling sustainable development and conservation

Professor Martin Price, Centre for Mountain Studies, University of Highlands and Islands

16:50 - 17:10   General Discussion

17.10 - 17.30   Introduction to Scenarios and Field trip Information

            Dr Jonathan Mitchley, BioScene Project / Ian Soane,
                  ICU-C

19:30               Conference Dinner

Post Dinner Activity

Dr G Tress and Dr B Tress University of Aberdeen

Day 1 Abstracts
The International Centre for the Uplands - Cumbria is funded by
Northwest Development Agency via Cumbria Vision and Cumbria County Council
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The Centre is now managed by the University of Cumbria
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