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The Biological Consequences of Living in Adverse Circumstances - Geddes Lecture
| Date | 4 June 2008 |
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| Duration | 0.5 Days (PM) |
| Price | GBP 8.51 + VAT |
| Location | Edinburgh |
| Venue | Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| Registration | 5.15-5.45 pm |
| Close of Seminar | 8.30 pm |
| Our code | 27201 |
| Also held on | There are no other dates for this event confirmed yet. Please call us on 0845 120 9602 for more information. |
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Why you should attend this lecture
Sir Patrick Geddes' influence as a pioneer of town planning received worldwide recognistion. His work in Scotland, France, the Near East and India based on the principle of "Place-Work-Folk" remains relevant to contemporary issues of sustainable development, regionalism and locality, economic and community regeneration, environmental quality and social inclusion.
In his lecture, Peter Head will look at the post recession, post Copenhagen situation and analyse the increasing importance of land use planning at a regional local scale in order to achieve sustainable economic development. He will look at the retrofitting of urban communities and the associated reintegration of rural and economic development in order to achieve the step change to the efficient use of renewable resources that is necessary to deal with climate change mitigation and adaptation and ecosystem destruction. He will address how this can be funded and how the programme can kick start economic momentum after the recession. He will talk about how communities and the cultural roots of society could be engaged in this change process and how this fits with a wider international perspective. His lecture will then finish with some visions of how a 2050 ecological age city might look and feel.
Lecture
17.45 Arrival and registration
18.00 Welcome by Ian Angus, Convener RTPI in Scotland
18.05 Introduction by Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change
18.15 Lecture b Peter Head, followed by questions
19.25 Vote of thanks by Ben Tindall, Chairman of the Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust
19.30 Drinks reception
Speaker
Harry Burns: Harry Burns graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1974. Over the next 15 years he worked as a general surgeon and for the last six years of his surgical career was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. He entered health care management and was, for a time, Medical Director of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. Since 1993 he was Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health Board which is responsible for organising health care and maintaining the health of one million people in the West of Scotland. In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Professorship in Public Health Medicine, University of Glasgow and is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Management in the University. He took up post as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in September 2005. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is the Scottish Government’s principal medical adviser; The CMO is also Head of the Scottish Medical Civil Service. The post has direct involvement in the development of health policy in Scotland, including prevention, health promotion, health protection and harm reduction. CMO also has lead responsibility for issues such as clinical effectiveness, quality assurance, accreditation and research, and covers the spectrum of health related issues ranging from public health policy to NHS operations.
CDP requirements
This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements
