London Conference 2005

The papers from this conference are being compiled as a book. Contents (pdf)

Programme

09:30 Registration, refreshments and bookstall

10.00 David Bookless: Theology of Sustainability

10.40 Ghillean Prance: Sustainability of the Non-human Creation

11:20 REFRESHMENTS AND BOOKSTALL

11.40 Donald Hay: Sustainable economics

12.20 Brian Heap: Consumption and Happiness

13.00 LUNCH AND BOOKSTALL

14.00 John Houghton, Victoria Institute Presidential address:
The Challenge of Sustainability (Climate Change and Energy)

14.50 Discussion Groups
1.The Non-human Creation led by Ghillean Prance
2. Sustainable Economics led by Donald Hay
3. Sustainable Consumption led by Brian Heap
4. Sustainable Energy led by John Houghton
5. Theology of Sustainability led by David Bookless
6. Sustainable Agriculture led by John Wibberley
7. Sustainable Waste Management led by David Stafford
8. Sustainable Aid/Disaster Management led by a Marcus Oxley

16.00 TEA

16.25 Chairman¹s Concluding Remarks

16.40 The Rev. Margot Hodson: Epilogue

The Speakers

• The Rev. David Bookless is Director of A Rocha UK.
• Professor Donald Hay is Head of the Division of Social Science in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
• Professor Sir Brian Heap, CBE FRS was until recently Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and formerly director of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.
• Sir John Houghton, CBE,FRS, President of the Victoria Institute and former Director General of the Meteorological Office.
• Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS VMH, President of CiS, is Science Director of the Eden Project.
• Professor John Wibberley FRAgS, formerly Professor of Agriculture, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
• David Stafford is Chairman of EnviroControl Ltd and visiting Research Professor of West Virginia State University.
• Marcus Oxley is Director of the Disaster Management Team in Tearfund.
• The Rev. Margot Hodson is Chaplain of Jesus College Oxford.
• Professor Derek Burke CBE, formerly Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.