DELIVERING MULTIPLE BENEFITS FROM OUR LAND: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE

DELIVERING MULTIPLE BENEFITS FROM OUR LAND: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
Wann 15.04.2014 00:00 bis 16.04.2014 00:00
Wo Edinburgh
Name SRUC: Scotland’s Rural College | J F Niven Building | Auchincruive | Ayr KA6 5HW | United Kingdom
Kontakt-E-Mail [email protected]

Registration is now open for the SRUC and SEPA Biennial Conference 2014. To register, please complete the registration form which can be downloaded from the conference website http://www.sruc.ac.uk/srucsepaconf or contact the Conference Administrator (details below). Bookings made before 24 January 2014 qualify for our early booking rate.

The need to deliver multiple benefits from our land will mean decisions having to be taken about a wide range of land management issues. For example:

• how can an ecosystem approach be applied to all land use planning decisions?;
• how best to address climate change issues while maintaining food and energy security?;
• how can rural renewable energy sources help meet energy demands?;
• how can farming and forestry systems contribute to increased ecosystem service delivery?;
• how best to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rural land uses while maintaining profitable agriculture and forestry sectors?

This conference will seek to present the best possible scientific understanding of the complexities associated with meeting such potentially competing demands. It will also provide a forum to discuss how researchers and policy makers can help support land managers deliver multiple benefits within a thriving rural economy and thereby ensure that sustainable development is achievable. The conference will be relevant to members of all three of these target audiences.

Conference Programme and Keynote Speakers
The Conference Programme shows the range of platform presentations being given under the four conference themes:

1. What do we need to know in order to incorporate the delivery of multiple benefits into planning and policies?
Policy Keynote Presentation: Title tbc. The Scottish Government’s land use strategy and the aspirations therein. Bob McIntosh, Scottish Government.
Science Keynote Presentation: Science for future landscapes. Richard Aspinall, Editor, Journal of Land Use Science.

2. What do we need to do to deliver integrated land management planning and policies on the ground?
Policy Keynote Presentation: tbc.
Science Keynote Presentation: Managing natural capital. Rosie Hails, CEH.

3. What opportunities are there to develop a low carbon economy as well as maintain multiple benefits from our land?
Policy Keynote Presentation: tbc.
Science Keynote Presentation: Land as a source of rural development opportunity: can government pull the right levers? Richard Wakeford, Birmingham City University.

4. What type of information and advisory systems do we need to deliver integrated land management in practice?
Policy Keynote Presentation: Title tbc. Pille Koorberg, Agricultural Research Centre, Estonia.
Science Keynote Presentation: Integrated farm forestry needs integrated advisory systems: a stakeholder-based appraisal of options in Scotland. Anna Lawrence, Forest Research.

For further details on each of the keynotes please see http://www.sruc.ac.uk/srucsepaconf

Venue, Costs and Accommodation
The Conference will take place in the John McIntyre Conference Centre of the University of Edinburgh on 15 and 16 April 2014. Details of Costs and Accommodation can be found in the attached booking form or at http://www.sruc.ac.uk/srucsepaconf