Conference presentations
On these pages we endevour to collate all the presentations and speeches from our most recent annual conferences. At the moment you will find the presentations from 2008 if you click on the menu in grey to your right. Those from our 2009 conference will follow shortly.
EUROPARC 2008 - presentations
An up-to-date list of the work sessions, work shops and key speeches held in Brasov on the theme "High conservation values, high management standards" is available below along with the presentations and summaries. If one is missing it means we have not yet received it.
More information about this conference can be found at the following link: EUROPARC 2008
- Workshop 4 presentation 3: higher education for the management of protected areas
- Workshop 4 presentation 2: higher education for the management of protected areas
- Workshop 4 presentation1: higher education for the management of protected areas
- Workshop 4 summary: higher edcation for the management of protected areas
- Workshop 3, presentation: Setting up project partnerships
- Workshop 3, summary: Setting up project partnerships
- Workshop 2 summary: Volunteers in parks
- Training session 9 presentation: Coastal and marine protected areas
- Training session 17, presentation 3: Sustainable financing for protected area systems
- Training session 17, presentation 2: Sustainable financing for protected area systems
- Training session 17, presentation 1: Sustainable financing for protected area systems
- Training session 17, funding guide: Sustainable financing for protected area systems
- Training session 16 presentation: Funding opportunities for protected areas
- Training session 15 presentation 4: Management effectiveness assessments
- Training session 15 presentation 3: Management effectiveness assessments
- Training session 15 presentation 2: Management effectiveness assessments
- Training session 15 presentation1: Management effectiveness assessments
- Training session 14 manual: IUCN management categories
- Training session 12 summary: Environmental interpretation
- Training session 11 summary: Community engagement and public participation
- Training session 10 summary: Climate change adaption
- Training session 8, presentation 2: Landscape character assessment
- Training session 8, presentation 1: Landscape character assessment
- Training session 8 summary: Landscape character assessment
- Training session 7 presentation: Selling the values and benefits of protected areas
- Training session 7 summary: Selling the values and benefits of protected areas
- Training session 6 case study: Natura 2000 - values and benefits
- Training session 6 presentation: Natura 2000 - values and benefits
- Training session 6 summary: Natura 2000 - values and benefits
- Training session 5, presentation 4: How to become a Charter Park
- Training session 5, presentation 3: How to become a Charter park
- Training session 5, presentation 2: How to become a Charter park
- Training session 5, presentation 1: How to become a Charter Park
- Training session 5 summary: How to become a Charter park
- Training session 4 presentation: Ecotourism and certification
- Training session 1 summary: High nature value farmlands
- Keynote speech presentation Guy Beaufoy
- Keynote speech presentation from Grazia Borrin Feyerabend
- Keynote speech from Andreas Beckmann
- Final list of sessions and speeches 2008
EUROPARC 2009 - presentations
Below you can find the workshop presentations given at the conference in Sweden under the title "100 years of National Parks in Europe. A shared inheritance; A common future". Also available is the feedback from these workshops.
More information about this conference can be found on this page: EUROPARC 2009
- Workshop outputs and feedback 2009
- B14 The relationship between protected areas and health -thoughts from a UK perspective
- B14 Natural Environments & HealthResearch Evidence
- B14 1 Mourne AONBHealth through Participation
- B14 Healthy Parks Healthy People, Rod Newnham
- B13 Communicating the Benefits and Values of Protected Areas, Olaf Ostermann
- B13 Parks & Benefits
- B13 Communicating the benefits and values of protected areas, Barbara Mertin
- B12 Ytre Hvaler National park, Aase Richter
- B12 The use of CMP Open Standards in five pilot project areas in Sweden, Soheil Haghbayan
- B12 Introducing the CMP Open Standards, Ilke Tilders
- B12 European Platform for Adaptive Management, Neil McIntosh
- B12 Capacity building for Adaptive Management in Europe, Neil McIntosh
- B10 An Approach to connecting land and sea in UK
- B10 Shifting Shores Coastal change and the need to link land and sea, Phil Dyke
- B10 Northern Bohuslän, Ingela Isaksson
- B10 Marine Planning and The National Trust ?maturing views
- B10 Marine protected areas one component in ICZM, Jorid Hammersland
- B10 EU policies and progress around Europe, Edward Holdaway
- B10 Coastal and Marine Conservation in the Netherlands, Fred van der Vegte
- B10 Examples of approaches to integration in UK, Edward Holdaway
- B6 The Cévennes national Park and sustainable tourism
- B11 Wilderness the Message from Prague, Richard Blackman
- B11The Wilderness approach in Sweden, Olle Höjer,
- B11 EUROPE´S WILD HEART, Zdenka Kenová, Hans Kiener, Handrij Härtel, Martin Solar, Richard Blackman
- B11 Central Balkan NP (Bulgaria); A PAN Park Perspective, Gencho Iliev
- B9 Linking Natural and Cultural Values, policy and practice in Scotland, Pete Rawcliffe
- B9 Culture reserves 10 years, Ulf Lindberg
- B9 A history of nature and heritage conservation, Leif
- B9 Biological Heritage in nature conservation, Anna Dahlström
- B8 Rationale, Approaches and Implementation in Europe, Christoph Nolte
- B8 German biosphere reserves put to the test!, Dr Nicole Schrader
- B8 Management Effectiveness and Quality Criteria in European Protected Areas
- B7 Introduction two sides for the same mountain, Patritzia Rossi
- B7 EUROPARC Transboundary Cooperation, Lassi Karivalo
- B7 Bavarian Forest and Sumava Transboundary Parks
- B6 Nature sports, leisure activities and regional nature Parks in France, Olaf Holm
- B6 Protected areas as tourist attractions? Some key issues, Peter Fredman
- B6 Planning for recreation / tourism opportunities in National Parks, Per Wallsten
- B6 An integrated landscape perspective on tourism in protected areas, Marie Stenseke
- B5 The Costwolds, Area of outstanding natural beauty
- B5 Sustainable grassland management, Tommy Lennartsson
- B5 1 Streuobstwiesen - Lebensraum und Idylle mit Zukunft, Dr. Stefan Rösler,
- B5 FÄRNEBOFJÄRDEN National Park
- B4 Protected areas and biodiversity The 2010-target and beyond Some remarks from the Swedish horizon, Mora Aronsson
- B4 Protected areas and biodiversity The 2010-target and beyond, Mark Marissink
- B3 Peak district N.P. landscape strategy a. action plan, peak district N.P Authority
- B3 Implementing the European Landscape Convention:Sharing Experiences and Promoting Action
- B1 Workshop Climate change and the influence oft the Climate change Adaptation of the Protected Areas (P.A.)
- B1 A Case Study for Peatlands, North Pennines
- B1Adaptation to climate change in protected areas, Paul Leadbitter, Nick Mason
- EUROPARC 2009: Conference programme
- B10 Conservation and Management of the Waddensea, Fred van der Vegte
- B10 North East Atlantic Marine Protected Areas, MSP and issues, David Johnson
EUROPARC 2010 - presentations
Below you will find PDF's of the presentations by keynote speakers and workshop presenters as well as the final feedback of the workshops from the EUROPARC Conference 2010 'Living together. Biodiversity and Human Activites: A Challenge for the Future of Protected Areas', in Italy. Any presentations that are currently not there will be uploaded in the next few weeks. In addition, live films of the keynote speakers have been uploaded on to YouTube and can be found using the search terms 'EUROPARC 2010' or here http://www.parcoabruzzo.it/europarc_video.php.
More information about this conference can be found at the following link: EUROPARC 2010
- WS 20 Boris Erg IUCN PA Management Categories and UNESCO Designations
- WS 20 Philippe Pypaert The Functions and Values beyond the UNESCO
- WS 20 Gianfranco Tamburelli UNESCO Designation
- WS 19 Maurilio Cipparone CEPA and training initiative for biodiversity conservation
- WS 19 Deanne Adams The role of environmental education and interpretation
- WS 18 Kelly Prifti Funds for Protected Areas
- WS 17 Sarat Gidda PoWPA beyond 2010
- WS 17 Sarat Gidda Growing threat of invasive species
- WS 17 Marta Mugica Working for biodiversity
- WS 15 Jacques Decuignieres Case Studies
- WS 15 Eric Baird Parks as a quality brand
- WS 15 Jacques Decuignieres Brand loyalty
- WS 13 Peter Glaves The Price of Nature Valuing and Using Ecosystem Services in Decision Making
- WS 12 WS 16 Naik Faucon, Anne Schierenberg, Anita Prosser People power and Setting the standard
- WS 11 Martin Solar Beyond the boundaries
- WS 11 Delphine Maurice Ecological Networks
- WS 11 Ana Rocha Co-management of natural resources and Protected Areas
- WS 9 Wilf Fenten Sustainable Tourism
- WS 9 Lasse Loven Carbon footprints of visitors in National Parks
- WS 9 Fabio Renzi Best Practices PAs
- WS 9 Josep Prats How charter involves local tourism businesses
- WS 8 Matti Tapanien Healthy Parks
- WS 7 Andrew Bachell Protected areas on onshore windfarms in Scotland
- WS 8 Lena Malmstrom Healthy Parks
- WS 7 Carles Castell The race for renewable
- WS 5 John Linnell Hunting for sustainability
- WS 6 Ignace Schops Creating welcoming visitor spaces
- WS 5 Angus Middleton Sustainable hunting
- WS 4 Nicola Thompson Understanding the impact of the CAP
- WS 3 Piero Genovesi Invasive alien species
- WS 4 Grant Moir Sustainable rural development
- WS 3 Emyr Williams Invasive affecting Protected Areas in the UK
- WS 2 Zdenka Krenova Wild Heart Europe
- WS 2 Erika Stanciu The Wild Europe Initiative
- WS 2 Erika Stanciu Southern Carpathians
- WS 2 Harvey Locke Wilderness in Europe
- WS 1 Patrizia Rossi The return of the wolf in Alps
- WS 6 Paolo Ciucci Human visitors, cultural values and large carnivores
- WS 20 Giuliano Tallone MAB Reserve Management
- WS 10 Dominique Leveque Regional nature Parks
- Workshop Feedback 2010
- WS 10 Gordon Watson Parks for people
- General Assembly Minutes 2010 (De)
- Keynote speech Jon Jarvis
- Keynote speech Harvey Locke
- Keynote speech Stefan Leiner
EUROPARC 2011 - presentations
On this page you can download the presentations from EUROPARC 2011 'Quality Counts - Benefits for Nature and People'. The confreence took place in Bad Urach, Germany from 21st - 25th September 2011.
- WS13 2011 Yrjö Norokorpi, Practical ways to include spiritual values in management planning of protected areas in Finland
- WS15 2011 Alan Rankin, Mobile? Visitor
- WS15 2011 WebParkSNP Chances and possibilities ? A National Park goes mobile
- WS2 2011 Andrea Hoffmann, Quality criteria and standards for German national parks
- WS2 2011 Ingrid Sieler, Benchmarking and Assessment
- WS3 2011 Rauno Väisänen, Finnish Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan and protected areas
- WS3 2011 Stefan Leiner, The EU Biodiversity and Nature Policy after 2010 ? the role of Protected Areas
- WS3 2011 Uwe Riecken, Strategies for Biodiversity
- WS4 2011 A successful approach to increase
- WS4 2011 Gábor Szilágyi, Habitat restoration in the Hortobágy National Park
- WS4 2011 Jens Enemark, Wadden Sea World Heritage
- WS5 2011 Claudia Bieling, A view on cultural ecosystem services in the Biosphere Reserve Swabian Alb
- WS5 2011 Liisa Kajala, Assessing the benefits of protected areas with help of visitor information
- WS6 2011 Asnate Ziemele, Developing quality tourism products in protected nature areas
- WS6 2011 Jacques DECUIGNIERES, A long-term partnership with Luberon regional nature park
- WS6 2011 National Parks and Protected Areas are nature based attractions or travel destinations
- WS7 2011EUROPARC Deutschland, What is happening in Europe on Volunteering?
- WS8 2011 Claudiu Iusan, Involving others and conveying the message
- WS8 2011 Gudrun Batek and Jan Wildefeld, Quality in Outreach and Communication
- WS9 2011 James Carter, Quality in interpretation Europarc conference
- WS9 2011 ParcInterp, Improving Training Standards by Integrating Education for Sustainable Development
- WS11 2011 Ribby Hall Village and the Forest of Bowland AONB A Partnership for Quality
- WS11 2011 Quality counts ? Benefits for Nature and People
- WS10 2011 Visitor management
- WS10 2011 Hans Schiphorst, Visitormanagement in dutch national parks
- WS1 2011 José A. Atauri , A STANDARD FOR CONSERVATION PROJECTS
- WS1 2011 Gisela Stolpe, Protected Area Management Effectiveness Evaluation in Europe
- EUROPARC General Assembly report 2011
- Keynote speech: Trevor Sandwith. EUROPARC 2011
- Keynote speech: Miranda Schreuers. EUROPARC 2011
- Keynote speech: Erika Stanciu. EUROPARC 2011
- Keynote speech: Ed Gillespie. EUROPARC 2011
- Keynote speech: Eberhardt Brandes. EUROPARC 2011
- WS12 2011 Udo Gattenloehner, Partnerships for biodiversity
- WS12 2011 Shaun Dawson, Financing Quality
- Workshop feedback
7th Charter Network Meeting, Serbia 2011
From 28th June – 1st July 2011 over 200 protected area practitioners met from 21 countries to listen to speeches, attend workshops and network on the topic of sustainable tourism. The conference ‘Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas. Building bridges - Seeking Solutions’ took place in Donji Milanovac in Djerdap National Park, Serbia, who was the official hosts of the event. It was the celebration of the seventh Charter Network Meeting. Thus the particular focus was EUROPARC’s European Charter for Sustainable Tourism.
The presentations available to dowload here are from the keynote speeches of this conference. The remaining presentations will be uploaded as soon as possible.
The conference programme can be found here
A report on the event can be found here
- 7th Charter Networking Meeting: Delivering Sustainable Tourism with the European Charter, Paulo Castro
- 7th Charter Networking Meeting: Sustainable tourism without frontiers, Patrizia Rossi
- 7th Charter Networking Meeting: Communication on Tourism, Mathieu Hoeberigs
- 7th Charter Networking Meeting: Small Business, Big Ideas. Harry Backhouse
