Conference

20th and 21st November 2024

INOX centre Students Union Sheffield University, Western Bank. Sheffield

20th November

10-10.30 Registration and Coffee INOX centre Students Union Sheffield University, Western Bank. Sheffield
10.30 to 11.10 Welcome and Introduction to facilitator Tim Duckmanton + facilitator Professor Colin Beard from Sheffield Hallam University Connecting with one another
11.10 – 11.30 -Reporting back from webinars and site visits from Rapporters
11.30 -11.45 Refreshment break
11.45 – 12.15 Keynote Erika Vaida-Bela Regional Vice chair of WCPA IUCN and former President of Europarc and Minister of Environment Romania. Founder of Propark
12.15 -12.45 Pecha Kucha – Quick fire presentation on people’s big ideas on the conference theme7 slides for 7 mins
12.45 – 13.45 – Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 – Workshops with refreshment during workshops

Workshops

How can protected Landscapes deliver 30X30 The Protected Landscapes Partnership (PL) will facilitate this open, constructive and solutions focussed workshop on how National Parks, National Landscapes and National Trails can navigate the various challenges they face in delivering Nature Recovery, working toward 30by30 ambitions and targets. With a particular emphasis on the consents and licenses Protected Landscapes must gain to do their urgent and much needed work and exploring the local and national opportunities for streamlining these to enable teams to achieve Nature Recovery at scale and pace in line with the Governments 30by30 commitments. This workshop will be followed up by five 1hr online Teams calls deep diving into five specific Nature Recovery thematic areas during December and January and will culminate in a report outlining a variety of case studies, opportunities for reduced spending on consenting and licensing and a Team Nature approach to enabling action at scale and pace across all the Protected Landscapes of the Atlantic Isles. (The PLP is England focussed, but colleagues from the other nations of the Atlantic Isles, and Europe are welcome and outputs will be shared in the hope similar streamlining can occur elsewhere to help nature recovery across the continent and beyond).
Bridging to a sustainable future – reflections from Zuid-Kennemerland field trip and Sustainability ExpressWe live in a dynamic and changing world. In order to make our protected areas fit for the future we need new thinking and cross-sectoral alliances. During the fieldtrip in Zuid-Kennemerland and our journey to England on the Sustainability Express we delve deeper into managing protected areas in multifunctional and changing landscapes. We use our imagination and collaboration skills to shape our future areas. We bring our learnings to Sheffield and share them in this interactive workshop. By reflection and enriching with experiences from our own areas and work, we will inspire each other and gain knowledge and skills needed to make our protected areas fitter for the future.
Working with other international designations that may provide a more flexible approach –Add-ons or alternatives to protected landscapes? National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Scenic Areas and even some of our landscape scale NNRs are long standing statutory approaches to caring for some of our most outstanding natural heritage or combination of natural and cultural heritage. But the UNESCO family of designations including World Heritage Areas, Geoparks and Biosphere Reserves are of increasing importance both in their own right and alongside these national approaches. Do their complement existing designations or provide practical and more cost effective and politically acceptable alternatives to them? Taking a number of examples from Scotland and elsewhere, this interactive workshop will look at the changing relationship between these national and international designations with a view to considering the policy and practical implications of this changing landscape for our designated landscapes.

15.15 – 15.45 Debate/panel of 4 people talking about what they have heard and what they would like to take away and do differently to make a difference

What 2 things you thought were great ideas
What 2 ideas are difficult
1 thing that you will take away and do differently

Marian Spain –Natural England
Nick Halfhide – Naturescott
European panellist
Young person

16.00 – 17.00 Voice of the future young people views on protected landscapes. Opportunity for young people to plan and deliver a session

21st November

9.30 Summary of previous day
9.45 – 11.00

Workshops

How can protected Landscapes deliver 30X30 The Protected Landscapes Partnership (PL) will facilitate this open, constructive and solutions focussed workshop on how National Parks, National Landscapes and National Trails can navigate the various challenges they face in delivering Nature Recovery, working toward 30by30 ambitions and targets. With a particular emphasis on the consents and licenses Protected Landscapes must gain to do their urgent and much needed work and exploring the local and national opportunities for streamlining these to enable teams to achieve Nature Recovery at scale and pace in line with the Governments 30by30 commitments. This workshop will be followed up by five 1hr online Teams calls deep diving into five specific Nature Recovery thematic areas during December and January and will culminate in a report outlining a variety of case studies, opportunities for reduced spending on consenting and licensing and a Team Nature approach to enabling action at scale and pace across all the Protected Landscapes of the Atlantic Isles. (The PLP is England focussed, but colleagues from the other nations of the Atlantic Isles, and Europe are welcome and outputs will be shared in the hope similar streamlining can occur elsewhere to help nature recovery across the continent and beyond).
Bridging for a sustainable future – We live in a dynamic and changing world. In order to make our protected areas fit for the future we need new thinking and cross-sectoral alliances. During the fieldtrip in Zuid-Kennemerland and our journey to England on the Sustainability Express we delve deeper into managing protected areas in multifunctional and changing landscapes. We use our imagination and collaboration skills to shape our future areas. We bring our learnings to Sheffield and share them in this interactive workshop. By reflection and enriching with experiences from our own areas and work, we will inspire each other and gain knowledge and skills needed to make our protected areas fitter for the future.
Working with other international designations that may provide a more flexible approach –Add-ons or alternatives to protected landscapes? National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Scenic Areas and even some of our landscape scale NNRs are long standing statutory approaches to caring for some of our most outstanding natural heritage or combination of natural and cultural heritage. But the UNESCO family of designations including World Heritage Areas, Geoparks and Biosphere Reserves are of increasing importance both in their own right and alongside these national approaches. Do their complement existing designations or provide practical and more cost effective and politically acceptable alternatives to them? Taking a number of examples from Scotland and elsewhere, this interactive workshop will look at the changing relationship between these national and international designations with a view to considering the policy and practical implications of this changing landscape for our designated landscapes.

11.00 -11.15 Refreshment
11.15 11.30 Pecha Kucha – Quick fire presentation on people’s big ideas on the conference theme7 slides for 7 mins
11.30 -12.00 Keynote speaker – Julian Glover the way forward
12.00 -13.00 – 60 secs of Fame on what actions you are going to deliver Producing the conference feedback report outcomes route forward
13.00 Network lunch
14.00 departure

Presentations from the Event

Feedback from Site visits and Webinars

Creating opportunities to train a workforce within a National Park

Protected Landscapes vs Landscape Partnerships

A solution focussed approach to navigating and licensing challanges during delivery of 30 by 30

Bridging to a sustainable Future

Keynote

Changing environment-Changing approacches Erika Viaida Bela

Workshops

Working with International Designations

A solutions focussed approach to navigating consenting and licensing challenges during delivering of 30 by 30

Bridging to a Sustainable Future