Engaging with the European Landscape Convention

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The European Landscape Convention provides us with a people-centred and forward-looking way to reconcile environmental management with the socio-economic challenges of the 21st century and to help people and communities to re-connect with place.

This Conference showcased and celebrated recent landscape thinking building on the Convention's call to protect, manage and enhance landscapes everywhere: in town, country or coast and to influence change between people and place...

This event was the first ever European Landscape Convention Conference to be held in the UK. To launch the occasion, the winner of the first UK Landscape Awards was revealed at a high profile celebratory dinner for conference delegates and Awards participants. Contributors included landscape practitioners and academics from the UK and beyond and their presentations can now be viewed on line.

The aim of the event was to demonstrate the UK's engagement with the principles of the European Landscape Convention, celebrate our landscaping achievements to-date and identify challenges ahead. Participants left feeling inspired and with new contacts in their pocket from a wide range of disciplines including planning, conservation, leisure, tourism and economic development, and from both public and non-governmental organisations; private companies and professional bodies.