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Jellicoe Lecture 2019: Landscapes in Crisis
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7 Nov 2019
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Leicester
Landscapes in Crisis: Tackling the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
Summary
Welcome and opening remarks – Adam White FLI, President Landscape Institute
Keynote
Professor Chris Rapley CBE, University of Central London
Climate change is happening Is landscape doing enough to respond to the scale of the climate emergency? Are we working to ensure our natural and human landscapes are resilient to growing impact? Are we channelling all we know into every project and every place that we create? Join us to discuss how the future of landscape leans on our propensity to adapt and change.
Panel debate – Chaired by John Lovell
Romy Rawlings CMLI, Vestre – The State of Landscape
Is landscape doing enough to respond to the scale of the climate emergency? Are we working to ensure our natural and human landscapes are resilient to growing impact? Are we channelling all we know into every project and every place that we create? Join us to discuss how the future of landscape leans on our propensity to adapt and change.
Steve Connor, Creative Concern -The Power of Public Action
In the space of just over a year, the world has seen an unprecedented rise in civil disobedience and youth activism. How can we harness this momentum to enhance public engagement in the creation and stewardship of place? Can landscape design, planning and management be a tool for empowering communities as they encounter a growing wave of climate perils? We’ll be looking at the best ways to reach out, engage and trade knowledge.
Professor Andy Gouldson, University of Leeds – Change in Motion: Policy and Government
The level of climate awareness and ambition within politics and government has ratcheted, but proposals continue to fall short of the level of change required. The recent amendment to the Climate Change Act, which now requires emissions reduction of 100% by 2050, has been swiftly followed by the advent of more urgent zero carbon goals for cities, investors and businesses alike. What can we expect of both the UK and devolved governments’ heightening focus on climate change and the pursuit of Net Zero? Are these hollow concepts of creative accounting, or are they genuine paradigm-shifts that will shape the developments, assets and built environments of tomorrow?
Dr Helen Hoyle, Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments, UWE Bristol – The Big Threat to Biodiversity
Climate change is transforming ecosystems and poses enormous threats to our biosecurity. The rising importance of delivering ‘net gain’ in planning policy and client briefs is a positive step, but are we equipped with the knowledge, skills and license needed to increase our natural capital, not just in the here and now, but for the enduring benefit of generations to come?
Closing remarks – Dan Cook, CEO Landscape Institute
Adam White, Professor Chris Rapley CBE, John Lovell, Romy Rawlings CMLI, Steve Connor, Professor Andy Gouldson, Dr Helen Hoyle, Dan Cook
Adam White is the President and Fellow of the Landscape Institute. He is a Chartered Landscape Architect and in 2008 he established Davies White Ltd with fellow landscape architect Andrée Davies.
Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. Chris is also a Patron of the Surrey Climate Commission and member of the London Science Museum’s Advisory Board. His previous posts include Chairman of the London Climate Change Partnership, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and founder and Head of UCL’s Earth Remote Sensing Group.
Jon Lovell is the co-Founder of Hillbreak. Jon specialises in providing strategic advice and vision on responsible and impactful investment, urban futures, and sustainable development policy. He combines a strong appreciation of global megatrends, market dynamics, effective policy, anticipatory leadership, and transformational strategy.
Romy Rawlings is a Chartered Landscape Architect and UK Business Development Manager for Vestre, a Norwegian manufacturer of street furniture. Romy’s 25- year career has been based in the landscape sector. Romy is Honorary Secretary for the Landscape Institute and Chair of their Diversity & Inclusion working group.
Steve Connor is founder of Creative Concern, one of the UK’s leading issues-based communications agencies. Steve is also the former chair of Manchester’s Climate Change Plan. His major areas of work include sustainability and climate change, spanning transport, forestry and green infrastructure.
Professor Andy Gouldson is Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds and Chair of the Leeds Climate Commission. He works with cities around the world to help develop their climate action plans and to promote low carbon, climate resilient development. He co-leads the ESRC Place-Based Climate Action Network working with cities and towns across the UK to develop new climate commissions and to focus and accelerate their response to the climate emergency.
Dr Helen Hoyle is a Senior Lecturer in Healthy Built Environments at the University of the West of England, Bristol and sits on the steering group of the UWE Bristol WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments. Helen has a background in geography and landscape architecture and previously conducted award-winning research culminating in the delivery of the London 2012 Olympic meadows.
Dan Cook is CEO at the Landscape Institute, the chartered body that represents landscape professionals, working to the benefit of people, place and nature. His career spans strategy, business planning, insight, politics and public affairs, working in professional bodies and government with experience in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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