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The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for the discussion of what action could and should be taken to abate the problem of acidification of the atmosphere. The emphasis was to be on what solutions were available which should be adopted and how they were to be put into effect.

The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for the examination as a whole of the financial framework of incentives, disincentives, subsidies, compensation and taxation within which farmers, foresters and landowners might or might not be encouraged to conserve the countryside.

The aim of the conference, which took place in the context of a grave general economic situation and a critical time for the forestry industry, was to see how important wood production industry might be promoted in reconciliation with the needs of nature conservation and amenity, and to what extent these objectives might be achieved within the framework of current and adumbrated taxation legislation.

This report was produced for Industry Year and contains additional material. It describes a number of successful efforts by industrial companies to protect and improve the environment, and it points out the need for the greatest care if risks of damaging the environment are to be avoided. The event was sponsored by British Midland, British Railways Board, Central Electricity Generating Board and Ready-Mixed Concrete Ltd.

The aim of this conference was to focus attention on the third force of charities pursuing environmental ends through owning and managing land and buildings bringing together bodies using similar approaches in different fields, with different styles and on different scales.

The conference was a contribution to the United Kingdom programme of activities to mark European Wetlands Campaign Year 1976. The aim of the conference was to bring together representatives of as many as possible of the main users of wetlands, in order to expound their various demands on wetlands to discover conflicts of interest between them, in the hope that such conflicts could be minimised and harmony promoted.

Organised by the RSA-Cubitt Trust Panel.

Organised by the RSA-Cubitt Trust Panel

The conference was initiated to provide a forum in which those involved could clarify and review the British approach to the control of pollution and also promote understanding and collaboration between industrial and environmental interests.

The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for consideration of how patterns of work and population in small towns and the countryside were likely to change over the next two or three decades and what the consequences might be for the environment. The conference was related to the two previous conferences: 'Work: Changing Patterns and Place' (24 June 1981) and 'Homes and the Countryside'' (26 November 1981).

The aim of the conference was to draw attention to the extent of vacant land in built-up areas and to provide an opportunity for those concerned to examine what uses such land could and should be put to and how it is to be brought into use. The meeting was the first of its kind on this topic.

The aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for consideration of how patterns of work are likely to change over the next two or three decades and what consequences may be for the environment.

This is the proceedings of a symposium to discuss the quality of the built environment. RSA in association with J Sainsbury Plc

This report is the sequel to the Society's earlier Conference on Energy and the Environment held in November 1974. The aim of this Conference was to help to provide some of that required encouragement by stimulating interest in the potential contribution of renewable energy sources to the nation's energy needs, doing so at a time when national energy policy was the subject of both government review and considerable public interest.

Working party set up jointly by the RSA, Committee for Environmental Conservation and Institute of Fuel to form a multi-disciplinary group to tackle issues about energy questions in an environmental context.\nThe aim of the report of the conference is to examine and report on the environmental implications of the development and use of the energy resources available to Britain.

The aim of the conference was to examine the main problems adversely affecting the maintenance and renewal of the underground utility services, particularly the cumulative deterioration of old pipelines and the growing congestion in built-up areas.

The Report of a preliminary Inquiry for the RSA. The Inquiry was conducted by Dr H E Bracey, Department of Economics of the University of Bristol. Published by Faber and Faber with financial support from the Nuffield Foundation and administered by the Acton Society Trust.

Archbishop Thurstan School was one of the schools taking part in the Parents in a Learning Society initiative