Working with EIA, SEA and SIA in Landuse

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• Working with EIA, SEA and SIA in Landuse
• State of art, differences, tools, cases and the
  future
• a draft set up for a post graduate course
• January 22, 2007

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• Background (seen ATLAS WP3)
• poor educational provision on sustainability and
  sustainable landuse among European policy makers
• cooperation and interaction between different
  actors (policy makers, researchers, consultants,
  practitioners etc.) needs to be increased.
• practical work and training should be offered
  more.

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• You like to
• get an overview of recent developments in
  sustainability assessment (regulations, tools,
  case studies, country specific developments)?
• share your knowledge of assessment tools with
  European colleagues?
• get input in your complex case study?
• practice unknown assessment tools?
• meet a colleague from another country doing
  similar work?
• be released from daily business for a few days
  and think freely about the future of your work?
• Feel free to sign up for the 3-day post-graduate
  course
• Working with EIA, SEA and SIA in Land use!

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• Outline of a postgraduate course (1)
• Objective
• offer a forum for knowledge exchange, practicing
  new tools and apply knowledge in real life cases
• Target audience
• professionals in sustainable landuse and landuse
  assessments coming from EU, national, regional
  and local governments, consultancies,
  universities and other research institutes

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• Outline of a postgraduate course (2)
• Learning format
• AM plenary lectures
• PM carousels of workshops
• Participants are free to build their own program
• Participants will be invited to present their
  examples of good (or bad) practice

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• Outline of a postgraduate course (3)
• Lecturers and trainers
• Lecturers leading professionals in the field of
  sustainability and landuse (input other
  networks?)
• Workshop leaders famous for their experience in
  practice and guiding attitude in their work

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• Outline of a postgraduate course (4)
• Practical information
• Duration 3 days
• Timing Autumn 2007
• Location Netherlands (Amsterdam)
• Fee 1600,

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• Day 1 AM
• State of art EIA, SIA in Europe
• Overview of available Assessment tools (project-
  and policy-, regional and local level)

• Day 1 PM
• Carousel tools (three rounds of 1 hour)
• Concluding remarks, bridge to day 2
• Optional evening program

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• Day 2 AM
• Landscape change in Europe, towards
  sustainability. Examples of good sustainability
  practices

• Day 2 PM
• Carousel case studies (three rounds of 1 hour)
• Unique learning points, bridge to day 3
• Optional evening program deepening of tool and
  case study findings

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• Day 3 AM
• Participants action lists for the near future
  (working in groups)
• The future of SIA in Europe (key note speaker)
• Lunch and departure

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• To be discussed
• support for this pilot?
• initiator (Wageningen Business School)?
• whom to be involved in the development of the
  course (course committee)?
• timing autumn 2007?
• Feel free to send program opinions, important
• names, databases of intended participants,
• examples of tools and cases to carla.oonk_at_wur.nl

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• Annex 1.
• Why Wageningen Business School?
• huge experience in organizing (international)
  postgraduate course programs (program contents,
  didactical as well as practical aspects)
• part of Wageningen University and Research Centre
• well equipped and flexible back office
• access to and discount at large conference
  centers