EAI Seminar Series

27 January 2009 (Study visit 26 January),

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London

Protected landscapes and cities are interdependent. Protected areas provide valuable services for our urban population – ecological, recreational, economic – and the majority of people live in cities. It is from urban areas that visitor income originates. Many opt to live in high quality countryside and work in a nearby conurbation.
Increasingly we are being encouraged to see the borders between urban and rural, between protected and non-protected, as porous and reciprocal. The European Landscape Convention requires signatories – including the UK and Ireland – to think about how all landscapes need enhancing and celebrating; and to bring people into the foreground of that work. What does this mean in practice? How can protected landscapes work best with urban populations? How should they respond to major growth plans? What can we learn from Europe? These are some of the questions to be addressed in this seminar, which will incorporate a visit to one of the places in Europe where they are most acutely being faced – Thames Gateway and the Kent Downs.
The event is aimed at advancing the application of the European Landscape Convention by Protected Landscape organisations which border major conurbations and interact with them.

Cost including lunch and refreshments on the 27th and study visit on the 26th are:
EAI Members £110
Non-member £135

For more information contact:
Dan Bloomfield
EAI Development Officer
Tel 00 44 1208 869797
dan.bloomfield@europarc-ai.org