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ISSUES: Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services.
Transdisciplinary Seminar Series. Supported by ESRC/NERC/EPSRC
Organised by the Universities of Abertay Dundee and Middlesex.
Agenda for the 1st ISSUES seminar,
Friday 7th March 2008
Location: Building Research Establishment (BRE), Garston, Watford.
10.00 am Welcome and coffee
10.20 am ISSUES: aims and objectives:
Rebecca Wade, University of Abertay Dundee and Lian Scholes, Middlesex University
10.45 am The DEFRA Ecosystems Approach Action Plan
11.10 am Managing urban green spaces
Roger Nowell, Green Estate/Sheffield City Council.
11.35 am Psychological and ecological perspectives on transdisciplinary research: a case study
Katherine Irvine, De Montfort University
12.00 pm Strategic Ecosystem Function - Some Urban Wetland Examples
Peter Worrall, Penny Anderson Associates Ltd
12.25 pm Lunch / Tour of BRE Technical Innovation park
2.00 pm The role of ecosystem enhancement within the living and working environment
Katherine Hyde and Nick Corker, BRE
2.25 pm Environmental Inequalities - key issues and challenges arising from the
ESRC/NERC-funded transdisciplinary seminar series.
Malcolm Eames, Brunel University
2.50 pm Coffee
3.00 pm Group discussion
4.00 pm Close of meeting / Tour of BRE Technical Innovation Park
