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The report lays out the principles on which to base nation-wide policies for the countryside and makes proposals for a national policy.

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 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 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.

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.