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: 26th October, 2004

Venue: Gregynog and Pont Bren, Newtown, Powys

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, University of Sussex) and the seminar (Morag McDonald, University of Wales, Bangor)

9.10

Gareth Edwards Jones (University of Wales, Bangor)

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, Bangor)

Balancing the desire for carbon sequestration and other conservation/environmental /agricultural needs

9.50

Rehema White and Steve Redpath (CEH, Banchory, Scotland)

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 (University of Aberystwyth)

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 Bangor)

 

Barbara Jones, Countryside Council for Wales

Paul Tabbush, Forest Research

Jon Tanner, Environment Agency

Havard Prosser, Welsh Assembly Government

Gareth Vaughan, Farmers’ Union of Wales

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, Newtown, Powys, SY16 3PW

Tel: 01686 650224 Fax: 01686 650656 E-mail: gregynog@cymru.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Coed Cymru


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, Bangor

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

University of Wales, Bangor

g.e.jones@bangor.ac.uk

Emmett, Bridget

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor

bae@ceh.ac.uk

Farrar, John

University of Wales, Bangor

j.f.farrar@bangor.ac.uk

Funnell, Don

University of Sussex

d.c.funnell@sussex.ac.uk

Harris, Ian

University of Wales, Bangor

i.m.harris@bangor.ac.uk

Jenkins, David

Coed Cymru

davidj@coedcymru.org.uk

Jones, Barbara

Countryside Council for Wales

barbara.jones@ccw.gov.uk

Jones, Chris

Forest Research

chris.jones@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Jukes, Roger

Member of the Pont Bren Group of Farmers

roger@tynybryn.fsnet.co.uk

Keyse, Colin

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

ckeyse@wcva.org.uk

Macklin, Mark

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

mvm@aber.ac.uk

McDonald, Morag

University of Wales, Bangor

mamcd@bangor.ac.uk

Marshall, Miles

Imperial College London

minm@ceh.ac.uk

Milne, Roger

Environment Agency Wales

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

gwyn@agriplus.net

Owen, Arwyn

Farmers’ Union of Wales

Arwyn.owen@fuw.org.uk

Owen, Emyr

University of Reading

emyrowen@ukonline.co.uk

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

University of Sussex

d.a.robinson@sussex.ac.uk

Sinclair, Fergus

University of Wales, Bangor

f.l.sinclair@bangor.ac.uk

Tabbush, Paul

Forest Research

paul.tabbush@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tanner, Jon

Environment Agency Wales

jon.tanner@environment-agency.wales.gov.uk

Usher, Steve

University of Wales, Bangor

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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