8th October, 10:00-12:30: Delivering and Promoting Sustainability and Good Environmental Management in Parks and Open Spaces – What Can We Do and What Works Best?
In this in-person session, Dr Iain Boulton, Biodiversity and Environmental Compliance Manager for the London Borough of Lambeth, will explore practical approaches to sustainability and climate resilience in the management of local parks and open spaces, drawing on examples of how these principles are being applied on the ground.
To register interest please email [email protected], with your name and mobile number. We will follow up with an email confirmation within 1 week.
Attendance is limited to 20 participants.
What do we really mean by ‘sustainability’ or ‘environmental management’ when it coms to the operation and evolution of our public (or private) parks and other open spaces? In a real world beset by challenges like restricted budgets and staff availability, increasing demands from the public, poor attitudes or unrealistic expectations, as well as climate change, what can we do to secure meaningful sustainability on site that can in itself be sustained? What sells or says ‘sustainability’ to a Green Flag Judge as well as our stakeholders? Let’s look at what can work, what may not work, or what future opportunities might exist for us to secure more success and with what resources and support from others with a common shared interest.
Key topics covered:
- Definitions of ‘sustainability’ and ‘positive environmental management’
- Objectives and actions that deliver sustainability in a real world
- Practical examples of sustainable good practice, and how to measure and evidence success
- What doesn’t work and what won’t work
- Who do we need to work with to secure and sustain success?
About Iain Boulton:
Dr Iain Boulton has worked for the London Borough of Lambeth for over 25 years, mainly in biodiversity, sustainable land management and improvement of public parks and other open spaces. He also works closely with other stakeholders to secure resources and develop new projects that embed sustainability in all of its guises and forms into the management and improvement of public open spaces, including reuse of resources and minimising our environmental impact upon nature and green spaces. Iain is also a Green Flag Award and Green Heritage Award judge and has been for over 15 continuous years.
