Summaries

Research often takes many years to emerge and then is published in journals read only by academics and students, the Knowledge Transfer is an opportunity to listen to the researchers and have your say which may help to direct future research funding and strategies - that ultimately will benefit us all.

Session 1A: Participatory planning

• Communication of a forest management plan for the Alport Valley (Peak District National Park, UK) to stakeholders through static and dynamic visualisations- S. Hehl-Lange, E. Lange (University of Sheffield)

• TBC - J. Tippett (University of Manchester)

This session:

• focuses on different ways of engaging stakeholders in the planning process;
• is based on novel approaches to participatory planning;
• furthers understanding of current planning practice by means of empirical examples
• is for public sector and consultancy members with an interest in planning and/or stakeholder engagement.

Session 1B: Modelling the environment

• The dynamics of intertidal mudflat and saltmarshes within estuaries. - M. Knaapen, I. Townend, K. Rossington, C. Fletcher, J. Spearman (HR Wallingford)
• Air quality monitoring and modelling (TBC) - T. Chatterton (University of the West of England)

This session:

• focuses on how complex environmental aspects can be modelled;
• is based on novel approaches to modelling;
• adds to current understanding of the environment by means of empirical examples;
• is for business, public sector, education and consultancy members with an interest in modelling.

Session 1C: Energy efficiency

• Embedding carbon reduction in project design and delivery - D. Pope (Bureau Veritas)
• 'We're on fire!'.....or how viewing an infrared image of your home leaking heat, might NOT encourage energy efficiency behaviours - J. Goodhew, T. Auburn, S. Pahl, S. Goodhew (Universities of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent)

This session:

• focuses on methods of engaging customers and consumers in achieving energy efficiency;
• is based on empirical examples;
• challenges assumptions about consumer/customer behaviour;
• is for business, public sector and consultancy members with an interest in energy and/or customer/consumer engagement.

Session 2A: Planning

• Bats in the planning system  - P. Scott (Warwickshire County Council)

• The next step for marine protected areas: assessing the future of co-management on San Salvador Island, Philippines - H. Bodley, J. Hills, P. Chaniotis, A. White (Newcastle University)

This session:

• focuses on current challenges in the planning process;
• is based on empirical examples;
• offers insights into limitations of existing planning practice and how these may be overcome;
• is for business, public sector, consultancy members with an interest in planning and/or the protection of habitats.

Session 2B: Measuring the built environment

• The elephant in the room - embodied CO2 of the built environment - Carroll (Ecocem)
• Measuring the environmental performance of office space - J. van de Wetering, P. Wyatt (University of the West of England)

Session 2C: Standardisation/ISO14001

• Creating a sustainability framework for biofuel supply. - R.A. Diaz-Chavez (Imperial College)
• Enabling or constraining environmental management practice? Some critical reflections on voluntary standards - M. van der Kamp (Lancaster University

This session:

• focuses on complexities surrounding standardisation processes;
• is based on conceptual approaches to standardisation;
• challenges current practices by reflecting on the assumptions underpinning standardisation;
• is for business, public sector, education and consultancy members with an interest in standardisation.

Session 3A: Transport

• Towards a more sustainable air transport industry - using high speed train and larger aircraft on short haul routes - Givoni (Oxford University)
• 'Short Sea Shipping' an alternative to land transport - F. Medda, L. Trujillo (University College London)

This session:

• focuses on how transport may become more sustainable;
• is based on conceptual papers;
• challenges current approaches by proposing alternative modalities;
• is for business, public sector, education and consultancy members with an interest in transport.

Session 3B: Modelling energy

• Supervisory control system for integration of renewable energies in buildings - F. Sadr, M. Eftekhari, P. Rowley (Loughborough University)
• Distributed energy generation - an evaluating key considerations and trade-offs through rapid prototyping - J. Clark, B. Stark (University of Bristol)

This session:

• focuses on how energy generation and consumption can be modelled;
• is based on novel approaches to modelling;
• furthers understanding of energy streams by means of empirical examples;
• is for business, public sector, education and consultancy members with an interest in modelling and/or energy.

Session 3C: Environmental behaviour

Does the present degree of concern and knowledge of environmental sustainability (ES) among business workers reflect its occurrence in company publications and the media? - P. Ofei-Manu (Zao Board of Education, Japan)

This session:

• focuses on organisational responses to sustainability issues;
• is based on empirical examples;
• challenges mainstream understanding of organisational support for sustainability;
• is for business, public sector, education and consultancy members with an interest in organisations.