International Rivers Conference 2010
| What | Conference, Europe |
|---|---|
| When |
Sep 06, 2010 10:00 AM
to
Sep 09, 2010 08:00 PM |
| Where | University of York, United Kingdom |
| Contact Name | Zena Bailey |
| Add event to calendar |
 vCal iCal
|
In September 1990 the Nature Conservancy Council organised an
international conference on ‘The Conservation and Management of
Rivers’. The conference was truly international, attracting 337
delegates from 29 countries.
By September 2010 twenty years will have elapsed since the York
conference. A huge amount has changed in the world since then –
economically, politically, culturally, scientifically. This conference
will look back over this period and assess the changes in river
conservation – how the environment has changed, how the legislation and
policies that drive conservation have changed, how organisations have
changed, how techniques for practicing river conservation have changed,
and how public attitudes have changed. What predictions did we make in
1990? Which have been proved accurate and which have not? Where have we
succeeded and where have we failed?
The 2010 conference provides an opportunity both to share experience as
we look back over the last 20 years, and to use the lessons of the past
to look 20 years on into the future.
