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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 initiative for holding the conference was taken by the Timber Growers' Organisation and held jointly with the RSA. It was prompted by growing consciousness of the increasingly urgent need to expand timber production in Britain to the fullest extent compatible with the due interests of other land usages, hence the necessity for a national forestry strategy. It was hoped that this meeting of all the many interests involved might point the way towards defining such a strategy.