Program day 2: 13 October 2010 

Introduction by day chairman

Lynn Crowe - Professor of Environmental Management Sheffield Hallam University and Board Member for Natural England

Plenary session

Toon Denys - CEO VLM: Overview of VLM green investments for biodiversity in peri-urban regions

Krys Craik - SYFP: Taking the lead in green infrastructure

10.10 - 10.30

Lectures (organised simultaneously with workshops - see below)

• Value of green infrastructure in urban quality of life
• Future land development instruments for biodiversity in peri-urban areas
• Countdown 2010 campaign 'biodiversity local view'
  A bridge between  'Action' and 'Awareness
• Existing transnational experiences with place-keeping
• Think globally, design locally: the local landscape as a framework for integrative design projects in peri-urban areas

Lectures

• Methods for measuring economic quality of green spaces
• The complexity of maintaining bio-diversity near urban centres: the case of Baixo Vouga Lagunar
• Tree audit, a strategic tool for future treeplanning
• Landscape management to optimize ecosystem services for sustainable agriculture
• Green-space experience as a tool for planning at a small scale. Good approaches in Scandinavia

 Lectures

• A methodology to assess the socio-economic value from ecosystem services
• Instruments for nature development in Flanders Case Turnhouts Vennegebied
• Emmen revisited: Good practice of planning?
• How to make urban fringes work better?
• Open space as public space - putting the socio-cultural dimension of sustainable peri-urban areas on the political agenda

10.10 - 10.55

Workshops (organised simultaneously with lectures)

• Involvement of the public in green investment projects -  Are we doing well?
• When green ambitions meet reality: the importance of smart land use management
• The importance of high quality green spaces from a social perspective
• Role of the various stakeholders and responsibility of each partner for more nature development in peri-urban areas
• Paying for biodiversity? Benchmarking for improving farmers biodiversity performances

Workshops

• Functional agrobiodiversity. The future of our agriculture?
• Do investments in green infrastructure contribute to a stronger, better and healthier region identity?
• How can a good landscape design result in a more dynamic region? (workshop only for students - from 11.10 -13.10)
• The economic and ecological meaning of short rotation coppice wood.
• Transnational assessment of practice in place - keeping: the case studies

Lunch - networking moment

Infomarket

Optional tourist walk in Bruges

13.30 - 13.50

Lectures  (organised simultaneously with workshops - see below)

• B.akkerbrood
• Biodiversity, an opportunity for regional economic development
• Public involvement and awareness raising concerning nature development projects
• Agriculture in green and dynamic city regions. Function of agriculture in peri-urban regions.
• Value orientated planning. The new tool?

Lectures

• Green spaces in the metropole Lille, the case of a growing city in North West Europe
• Urban habitats for everyone?
• Current tools for stimulating park and green management in Flanders
• The future of agri-environmental schemes in EU-context
• Spatial planning for a better biodiversity

Lectures

• Linking green spaces by bike: Planning examples of the  Stuttgart Region
• Biodiversity at industrial sites: unknown win-win possibilities
• Farmers working together for more biodiversity: succesful examples from the Netherlands and vision for the future
• Towards a new approach and partnership for landscape development and green buffers in industrialized areas.
• A story about planning and cooperation projects for a green suburb.

13.30 - 14.15

Workshops

• Farmers, obvious partners for biodiversity or not?
• Economic evaluation of peri-urban green investments: model
• Reinventing Bilbao through green investments : strengths and limitations of ad-hoc planning
• Land development in Europe and its contribution to biodiversity in peri-urban regions - part 1  
• Soil biodiversity. The key to improve to have more biodiversity on farmland

Workshops

• Can art save the landscape?
• Evaluation of green investments: EU – Case studies
• Land acquisition for biodiversity: the quick or the slow way?
• Land development in Europe and its contribution to biodiversity in peri-urban regions - part 2  
• Transnational assessment of practice in place-keeping: model agreements/analysis 

Plenary session

Panel discussion with five theme chairs, based on input from all workshops and lectures:

• Place - keeping:Tom Wild (SYFP)
• Social: Johan Helmer (HHSK)
• Place-making: Griet Celen (VLM)
• Economic: John Henneberry (UoS)
• Ecological: Frank van Holst (DLG)

Plenary session: official part of the conference

Conclusions of the day by chairman Lynn Crowe

Press moment

Closing event

• Speeches by VIPs
• Publication with recommendations on a Flemish level and on a European level
• Signing of Charter Green Belt Bruges