making places profitable - creating a setting for investment


	‘Making Places Profitable‘ will provide a vital forum that will inform the development of a body of hard evidence linking environmental quality with economic decisions. The conference will centre around a series of thought-provoking talks and inspiring presentations from key UK and European experts and actors. Participants will be encouraged to input their own thoughts and experiences during a number of workshops and seminars, and will have the opportunity to visit and discuss real examples of regeneration schemes around Sheffield.

The ‘Making Places Profitable’ Conference aims to:

Explore the role of environmental improvements in stimulating economic growth, and examine the impact of landscape quality on investment decisions.
Contribute to the development of policy in sustainable communities, planning and regeneration.
Identify the state of current knowledge and showcase new research from across Europe in this exciting and rapidly developing field.
Share knowledge, experience and good practice by examining real examples, case studies and demonstration sites.
Discuss and explore opportunities for the funding of future regeneration programmes and new research in this area.
Provide an arena for informal networking and collaboration.

The Conference will be of interest to policy makers, practitioners in the private and public sector, and academic and non-academic researchers. If you would like to register to attend this conference please click on ‘How to Register‘. Places will be limited, so interested parties are advised to book early.

If you would like further information about this conference, please do not hesitate to contact Tom Wild at South Yorkshire Forest Partnership on +44(0)114 257 1199, or email tom.wild@syforest.co.uk or alternatively; please contact Nick Cooper at diva creative on +44(0)114 221 0378 or email nick@divacreative.com.

About the CSI project

The CSI project is led by South Yorkshire Forest Partnership (a National Community Forest partner) and involves Local Authorities, Universities and Investment Agencies in South Yorkshire, Walloon Region, Belgium and North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. This partnership has secured funding from INTERREG (European Funding) and a series of national and regional organisations including Yorkshire Forward and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).

The partners intend to help improve the image of the participating regions to investors, and to ensure that the necessary economic emphasis is given to the environment in strategic and funding decisions. The CSI project aims to address the lack of evidence of the link between environmental quality and economic activity, and particularly of the impact of landscape quality on investors’ location decisions.

For further information on the project please visit: www.environment-investment.com

Please note, this conference will be delivered in English.

Confirmed Speakers:

Sir Bob Kerslake, (Chief Executive, Sheffield City Council)

Peter Hetherington (The Guardian)

Professor Michael Parkinson, (Director, European Institute of Urban Affairs, Liverpool John Moores University)

Richard Simmons, (Chief Executive, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)

Professor Peter Roberts, (Chair, Academy for Sustainable Communities)

Prof Anne Power (London School of Economics)

Gideon Amos, Director, (Town and Country Planning Association)

Lars Gemzøe, (Centre for Public Space, Research Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)

Dr. Meinholf Bertelt-Glöß, (Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft NRW, LEG Stadtentwicklung GmbH & Co. KG Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)

Jan Anderson (Director of Environment,Yorkshire Forward)

To download the Programme pdf click here.