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SEW Overview | Programme of Events| Pictures 2008| Public Event
Summaries of the events will be available soon.
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| Thursday 31st January 2008 | |||
| Learning for our Future: Sustainable Development & Education | |||
Speakers include: Ann Finlayson, Education Commissioner for the Sustainable Development Commission Professor Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute of Social Marketing at the University of Stirling. With further guests to be announced For more details see the Public Event page
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19:00 – 22:00 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh This event is run in partnership with the Sustainable Developement Education Policy Network
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| Events in the Parliament | |||
| Tuesday 5th February 2008 | |||
Scotland’s Exceptional Landscape - A Landscape for Living |
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This event for MSPs announced the winner of an MSP’s landscape competition. They were asked to identify which landscape best sums up the richness, diversity and distinctiveness of Scotland’s environment. As well as awarding the winning prize, the gathering affords the opportunity for MSP’s to discuss informally how Scotland can better care for landscape across the country.
For more information contact: Bill Wright - 07785-510456, or email birnambill@tiscali.co.uk |
12:30 – 14:00 Room TG.20/21 Hosted by: |
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‘A Scottish Marine Bill - What future for Scotland’s seas? plus short film |
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The forthcoming Scottish Marine Bill is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Scotland’s seas. But what measures are needed in the Bill to better coordinate and manage activities at sea, and safeguard our marine wildlife, resources and coastal communities for the future? The event included a first view of the 3-minute film ‘Save our seas’, by Scottish Environment LINK. For more information contact: Ylva@scotlink.org www.savescottishseas.org |
18:00 – 19:30 Commitee Room 1 Hosted by: |
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| Wednesday 6th February 2008 | |||
Planning for sustainable livelihoods A Breakfast Forum |
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A forum for Business and environmental representatives with speakers:
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08:00 – 09:30 The Scotsman Hotel This event is supported by National Grid  |
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Get Active, Keep Active! Planning for healthy sustainable communities |
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Society conspires against choosing active travel; out-of-town shopping centres, inadequate public transport and more and more money spent on roads rather than investment in healthier more sustainable modes of transport. At the same time, Scotland is facing an inactivity and obesity crisis, while traffic and congestion increasingly impact on our quality of life. Learn how solid, on-going investment in planning and designing for active travel, such as creating comprehensive path networks in, around and between our communities, can help bring about significant change in the way we travel today. We also looked at using personalised travel planning and other innovative promotion campaigns to deliver positive changes in attitudes, highlight alternatives and deliver a real shift away from driving towards sustainable travel. Organised jointly by the Ramblers Association and Sustrans. For more information please contact Helen Todd at the Ramblers Association, helen.todd@ramblers.org.uk or Petra Staats at Sustrans, Petra.Staats@sustrans.org.uk |
13:00 - 14:00 Committee Room 3 Sponsored by: |
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| Thursday 7th February 2008 | |||
“Making the best use of rural development funding” |
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The new Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) is due to be launched early in 2008, bringing £1.6 billion of rural development funding to Scotland over the next 6 years. Farmers, crofters and other rural residents can apply for funding to achieve a range of environmental, social and economic benefits for rural Scotland. An entirely new way of delivering this funding, Rural Development Contracts, will be launched, and for the first time focus will be on outcomes and regional priorities. How can the benefits be maximised, and the best possible use be made of this important programme? A series of case study examples showed what can be done, and what it can achieve for biodiversity, landscape, access, tourism, and cultural heritage, at the same time as providing an important source of income for those in rural areas. |
12:30-14:00 Committee Room 3 Hosted by: Jim Hume MSP |
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| Scottish Environment Week Reception | |||
A wide audience of parliamentarians, representatives from LINK’s member bodies and wider civic society in celebrating Scotland’s environment came together to hear:
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18:00 – 20:00 Garden
Lobby Hosted by: |
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| Through out the Week | |||
Biodiversity Exhibition |
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A photographic display highlighted the importance of Scotland's biodiversity.
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The Garden Lobby Sponsored by:
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LINK Exhibition |
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A Scottish Environment LINK exhibition was on show during the week.
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Upper Garden Lobby Sponsored by: |
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| Other Events In Scottish Environment Week | |||
| Wednesday 6th February 2009 | |||
| Cross Party Group on Climate Change | |||
With speaker, photographer Mark Edwards, who recently held the Hard Rain Exhibition at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Hard Rain is a stunning series of photos showing the impacts of climate change around the world, each of which corresponds with a line from the Bob Dylan song. Contact: Ruth Dawkins, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland |
5.30pm, Committee Room 5 |
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If you would like more information, please email the LINK Parliamentary Office, or telephone 0131 225 4345.
Find out more about previous Scottish Environment Weeks in the Archive
Scottish Environment Week 2008 is sponsored by:
Keep Scotland Beautiful, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Historic Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage
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