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THE FACULTY OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT will be hosting an international conference on
“BUILT ENVIRONMENT ISSUES in SMALL ISLAND STATES and
TERRITORIES”
Time: August 2-6, 2005
The
conference is being hosted in the context of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD), the recognition of the special
circumstances that effect Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
and the role of academic institutions in this scenario. Within
the inter-relationship between human capital, economic capital,
cultural capital, social capital, and resource capital, the
conference is paying particular attention to the issues
effecting the built environment.
One characteristic of small
islands is their vulnerability – from internal and external
influences – to serious economic, social, cultural and
environmental consequences. These are the result of many
inter-connected factors, such as natural hazards; energy
importation; limited range of natural resources; importation of
pre-packaged ‘solutions’ (theoretical and practical); land-use
decisions bringing about almost immediate and irreversible
results on the quality of community, land, maritime, natural and
built environments; the physical and aesthetic sensitivity of
conurbations and townships to heritage, built form, scale, place
and movement.
Within the theme “Built Environment Issues in
Small Island States and Territories”, the conference will be
developing sub-themes for the delivery of papers around topics
that will cover:
- Land-Information and Land Management;
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Community-Township/Urban-Rural Development;
- Architecture and
Design;
- Resource and Technology.
It is planned that local,
regional and international participants will be attending and
contributing to the conference programme, and will be coming
from a wide range of backgrounds, viz. academics, professionals,
representatives from the private and public sectors and from
implementing agencies.
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