SEMINAR
PROGRAMME:
ESRC Transdisciplinary Seminar Series
Sustaining Mountain Landscapes: conflict and compromise in
the British Uplands
Can ecological prerogatives be meaningfully recognised
through conservation or new forms of income generation?
Date:
Venue: Gregynog and Pont Bren,
25th October
18.30 – 19.30 |
Reception at Coed Cymru, Tregynon |
20.00 |
Dinner at Gregynog |
26th October
8.30 |
Coffee and registration |
9.00 |
Introduction to the series (Don Funnell, |
9.10 |
Gareth Edwards Jones ( How do we balance single issue NGOs like RSPB, Plantlife, CPRW (and the social groups like Cymuned) with the rights / opinions of those who own the land (particularly income generation)? |
9.30 |
John Farrar et al (UWB & Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology, Balancing the desire for carbon sequestration and other conservation/environmental /agricultural needs |
9.50 |
Rehema White and Steve Redpath (CEH, Consensus building: reconciling conservation and socio-economic goals in the uplands |
10.10 |
Fergus Sinclair and Morag McDonald (UWB) Participation and scale |
10.30 |
Mark Macklin ( The changing occurrence of extreme flood events in the British uplands over the past 300 years |
10.50 |
Coffee |
11.10 - 12.30 |
Panel discussion: What are policy makers' research needs? How is knowledge most
effectively transferred so that interdisciplinary research results can meet
stakeholders’ requirements? Chair – Bridget Emmett (CEH
Barbara Jones, Countryside Council for Paul Tabbush, Jon Tanner, Environment Agency Havard Prosser, Welsh Assembly Government Gareth Mark Robins, RSPB |
13.00 |
Lunch ‘on-farm’ at Pont Bren provided by Eirlys and Roger Jukes |
13.45 |
‘Pontbren Farmers Group’ with David Jenkins, Coed Cymru Tour of the Pont Bren project |
16.30 |
Finish |
SEMINAR
LOCATION:
Gregynog,
Tregynon,
Tel: 01686 650224
Fax: 01686 650656 E-mail: gregynog@cymru.ac.uk
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:
NAME |
AFFILIATION |
E-MAIL |
Austin, Kevin |
Welsh Assembly Government |
kevin.austin@wales.gsi.gov.uk |
Bailey, Estelle |
Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust |
ebailey@montwt.cix.co.uk |
Carroll, Zoë |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, |
zlc@ceh.ac.uk |
Dauncey, Alec |
Forestry Commission |
alec.dauncey@forestry.gsi.gov.uk |
Davies, Alun |
Member of the Pont Bren Group of Farmers |
|
Driver, Dominic |
Forestry Commission |
dominic.driver@forestry.gsi.gov.uk |
Edwards-Jones, Gareth |
|
g.e.jones@bangor.ac.uk |
Emmett, Bridget |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, |
bae@ceh.ac.uk |
Farrar, John |
|
j.f.farrar@bangor.ac.uk |
Funnell, Don |
|
d.c.funnell@sussex.ac.uk |
Harris, Ian |
|
i.m.harris@bangor.ac.uk |
Jenkins, David |
Coed Cymru |
davidj@coedcymru.org.uk |
Jones, Barbara |
Countryside Council for |
barbara.jones@ccw.gov.uk |
Jones, Chris |
|
chris.jones@forestry.gsi.gov.uk |
Jukes, Roger |
Member of the Pont Bren Group of Farmers |
roger@tynybryn.fsnet.co.uk |
Keyse, Colin |
|
ckeyse@wcva.org.uk |
Macklin, Mark |
|
mvm@aber.ac.uk |
McDonald, Morag |
|
mamcd@bangor.ac.uk |
Marshall, Miles |
|
minm@ceh.ac.uk |
Milne, Roger |
Environment Agency |
roger.milne@environment-agency.gov.uk |
Morris, Aled |
Member of the Pont Bren Group of Farmers |
|
Morris, Gwyn |
Member of the Pont Bren Group of Farmers |
|
Owen, Arwyn |
Farmers’ |
|
Owen, Emyr |
|
|
Prosser, Havard |
Welsh Assembly Government |
havard.prosser@wales.gsi.gov.uk |
Richards, Mike |
Coed Cymru |
coedcymru@coedcymru.org.uk |
Robins, Mark |
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
mark.robins@rspb.org.uk |
Robinson, David |
|
d.a.robinson@sussex.ac.uk |
Sinclair, Fergus |
|
f.l.sinclair@bangor.ac.uk |
Tabbush, Paul |
|
paul.tabbush@forestry.gsi.gov.uk |
Tanner, Jon |
Environment Agency |
jon.tanner@environment-agency.wales.gov.uk |
Usher, Steve |
|
ehstev@hotmail.com |
Vaughan, Gareth |
Farmer’s Union Wales |
head.office@fuw.org.uk |
White, Rehema |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Banchory |
rmwh@ceh.ac.uk |
Wildig, John |
Pwllpeiran ADAS |
John.wildig@adas.co.uk |
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