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LAND USE MAPPING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS
Date: Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Venue: Institute of Materials, Minerals and
Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB
PROGRAMME
9.30 Coffee
9.45 Welcome
10.00 The history of land use and related surveys in Britain:
=> Alastair Pearson (University of Portsmouth)
Identifying change in the human and physical
landscape using historical map data in a GIS
=>Brian Short (University of Sussex) British
official cadastral and agrarian surveys 1910-1945
=>Rex Walford (Fellow of Wolfson College,
Cambridge, and Organising Secretary of the 1996
Land Use UK survey) British Land Utilisation
Surveys 1930s – 1960s – 1990s: Involving the people in the countryside
=> Will Pilfold (University of Sussex) Dudley
Stamp and the impact of land use information in
government policy making 1938-1947
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Archiving and disseminating historical land
use information, with contributions from DEFRA
(MAGIC), Portsmouth (Vision of Britain), the National Archives and others
2.30 Analysing and re-purposing historical data:
=> Brian Baily and Humphrey Southall (University
of Portsmouth) Generating vector data and statistics from the Stamp survey
=> Ruth Swetnam (CEH, Monks Wood) The spatial
dynamics of rural land-use change in England & Wales 1930-2000
3.30 Tea
4.00 Concluding discussion, with contributions on
potential policy applications of historic data
from the perspectives of the Environment Agency, Natural England and others.
5.00 Conference ends.
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Humphrey Southall
Reader in Geography/Director,
Great Britain Historical GIS Project
Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE
GIS Project Office: (023) 9284 2500
Home office: (020) 8853 0396
Mobile: 0796 808 5454
About Britain: http://www.VisionOfBritain.org.uk
About us: http://www.gbhgis.org
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