Green Infrastructure for Ecosystem Services in the Built Environment 2012-2014

The Green Infrastructure Partnership's Interdisciplinary Training Programme, integrating green infrastructure and ecosystem services into the planning, design and management of the urban landscape

2012

Confronting the challenges in Manchester

This interdisciplinary masterclass will explore issues facing Manchester of surface water management, urban heat island, and the quality of air, water and biodiversity.

The workshop will provide an in-depth introduction to Green Infrastructure and the ecosystem services approach, in the light of changes in local planning and environment policy and opportunities to take an ecosystem services approach to the design, planing, implementation, retrofit and maintenance of Manchester.

Participants will also work in groups to produce a practical design, applying an ecosystem services approach to the development of a local site in Manchester, to develop a practical understanding of the principles involved.

This workshop aims to share expertise amongst local Manchester practitioners and designers, planners, ecologists and policy makers, local authorities, housing providers and community representatives, contractors and green space managers.

2014

RESET delivers inspiring practical and theory based training, led by experts with a proven track record in transforming the built environment for nature and for healthy, resilient communities.

Workshops at an affordable cost explore the fundamentals of ecological design and adaptation, water and energy management, and approaches that support our natural life support system.

Speaker Profiles

As well as local guest speakers, this workshop will be led by some of the UK's foremost practitioners on urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services, including:

Gary Grant | CEnv FIEEM AoU, Director of the Green Roof Consultancy
A chartered environmentalist and ecologist with 30 years of experience involving several hundred projects of ecological survey and assessment, biodiversity action planning, green infrastructure planning, site design and management plans. Gary works closely with built environment professionals encouraging them to use the ecosystem services approach. He is also Chair of the IHDC, an Academican of the Academy of Urbanism and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Biodiversity.

Fees & Booking

Standard fee (A)
£120

Reduced fee (B)
£100
Green Infrastructure Partnership Members / Local Authorities / NGOs / Students / RESET Members

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For more information please contact RESET Development:

info@reset-development.org

+44 (0)20 7749 2512
+44 (0)7731 304 966

RESET Development
4th Floor
16 Hoxton Square
London N1 6NT

Dusty Gedge | President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations, Director of Livingroofs.org and the Green Roof Consultancy
Internationally recognised as the UK’s leading authority on biodiversity and green roofs, campaigning for their whole scale adoption in major developments in London and across the UK. In 2008, he co-authored the Living Roofs and Walls technical report to support the New London Plan, for which he was awarded the Andrew Lees Memorial Award. He co-founded Livingroofs.org in 2004, the UK's first independent green roof organisation. Dusty is internationally recognised for his work and is the President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations.

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