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Healthy Plants, Healthy Places: Embedding biosecurity in landscape projects
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14 Jun 2019
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London
3. Getting to grips with good biosecurity practice
Summary
Landscape professionals can play a key role in biosecurity best practice, from species selection and plant establishment-friendly design to client advice and ongoing management.
Learn about the key pathways of introduction and spread that landscape professionals encounter day to day, recognise the importance of cultural as well as environmental factors in influencing the damage of harmful organisms, and get to know some of the more serious plant pests and pathogens emerging today.
As a result of attending this session delegates will be able to:- Identify the key pathways of introduction and spread in relation to the work of landscape architects,
- Recognise the importance of cultural and environmental factors in influencing the damage harmful organisms can cause
- Give examples of named emerging plant pests and pathogens
Dr Charles Lane
Dr Charles Lane is Senior Plant Health Professional at the Royal Society of Biology. With over 25 years’ experience in the sector, Charles has been instrumental in leading learning development across plant health and biosecurity. Charles has also been leading the skills agenda for Defra and the Government Office of Science in developing a new programme of work to inspire the next generation of plant health scientists.
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