Online event | Tuesday 25th February 2025 | 9:20-14:30

In the face of the climate and biodiversity crises, there is increasing interest in landscape scale change requiring new approaches to governance, entities and standards in participation.

Fantastic work is already underway. Involving communities and building partnerships into these projects and bringing them along with processes of change can help projects to:

• Get to wiser, better-informed decisions
• Reach wider agreement
• See increased support
• Find more resources for action
• Generate more momentum

In this virtual half-day event, you will gain insights from leaders and fresh thinkers and those at the forefront of experience with futures work and the human side of landscape and waterscape projects.

Who is the event for?
This event will be particularly useful for those either considering, setting up, implementing, funding, or researching landscape and waterscape scale projects. We will be providing insights from practice and research about what works and why.

Whatever the scope of your ambition - from greening a grey pocket of an urban area to full landscape-scale change - we want to help you deliver lasting benefits for people and nature.

Event Speakers:
This event will feature talks and Q+A sessions from a range of participation, environmental social science, and conservation specialists. Our speakers will be drawing on insights from diverse fields including stakeholder dialogue and engagement, psychology and social science, and lived experience. Interactive sessions will also be spread throughout the event, allowing the opportunity for knowledge sharing, debate, and networking.

Horizon Scanning:

• Landscape Futures - Chris Short
• Marine Futures - TBC
• River/Wetland Futures - TBC

Stories to inspire:

• Summit to Sea to Tir Canol - Ben Porter
• Co-creating Change (Reading Climate Emergency Strategy) - Gudrun Freese
• Community Perspectives - Toby Laurent Belson

Fresh ideas and insights:

• Cooperative Structures - Henry Leveson-Gower
• Understanding Power - Lou Lecuyer
• Regenerative Governance and Systems Thinking - Diana Pound

Interactive sessions will also be spread throughout, allowing the opportunity for knowledge sharing, debate, and networking.
The agenda is still being refined, but this promises to be a really exciting and empowering event.

For more information and early bird tickets: https://tinyurl.com/NCFutures