The Public and the Environment: Citizens, Sustainability and Science
	 RGS-IBG, I Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
	 Wednesday 14 April 1999
	10.00 am to 4.00 pm
	 
	THE ISSUES: It is widely recognised that a constructive dialogue
with the public is required to encourage more environmentally sustainable
behaviour. To engage the public fully in environmental debates, issues,
policy formulation and assessment requires effective dissemination of
information, public understanding, and opportunities for feedback and input
into policy at local and national levels. 

	This conference brings together the work of a number of key
geographers, environmentalists, and other social scientists with
practitioners and policy makers to explore the ways and effectiveness with
which the public is currently engaged in contemporary debates about the
environment, and how they receive and understand environmental information.
It is timely to consider how public involvement in the environmental debate
can be both developed and sustained, given the Government's strong interest
in increasing public participation.

	CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: 
	Richard Sandbrook, IIED - Conference Chair
	* The Government's Position on Public Participation in the
Environmental Debate
	Senior Government representative (awaiting acceptance from the Rt.
Hon. Michael Meacher) 
	* Listening to People - Incorporating Public Perceptions into Policy
	Jacquie Burgess, UCL
	* Knowledge into Policy - the Role and Influence of the Royal
Commission on Environmental Pollution
	 Susan Owens, University of Cambridge
	* Public Participation in Local Agenda 21
	Bob Evans, South Bank University
	* Reporting Environmental Information - The Media Angle
	Greg Neale, Sunday Telegraph
	* The Environmental NGO's Role in Promoting Environmental
Understanding
	Tony Juniper, Friends of the Earth
	* Communicating Scientific Understanding of the Environment
	John Durant, Science Museum
	* Understanding Environmental Information
	Professor Alan Irwin, Brunel University

	WHO SHOULD ATTEND?  
	- academic researchers
	- policy makers in environment (local and central government); 
	- environmental educators; 
	- broadcasters and journalists; 
	- environmental researchers; 
	- NGOs, charities and trusts with an interest in the environment

	COST? Forty pounds for academics, or non-profit making
organisations, fifteen pounds for post-graduate students, all others £60.
This price includes lunch.

	TO FIND OUT MORE For full programme and registration details, email
[log in to unmask] (giving your postal address) or call Alison Glazebrook
on 0171 591 3006 and full details will be sent.

	Organised by the Planning and Environment Research Group of the
RGS-IBG as part of the RGS-IBG's 'Environment and Society Forum'.


Alison Glazebrook
Education and Programmes Division
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Tel. 0171 591 3006, Fax. 0171 591 3059, email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.rgs.org



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