Annual report 253th Session and Annual Accounts for the year to 31 March 1989

This programme has notes scribbled in it.

Includes a list of delegate and participating organisations

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

Organised by the RSA-Cubitt Trust Panel.

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 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 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 are likely to change over the next two or three decades and what consequences may be for the environment.