Mitigation: Smoke and Mirrors or Biodiversity Enhancement?

18-20 November 2008

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Strategic Overview
David Tyldesley MIEEM (David Tyldesley Associates)

Delivering Mitigation and Enhancement through Environmental Impact Assessment
Richard Knightbridge CEnv MIEEM (Entec) and Hugh Watson CEnv MIEEM (Entec)

Bridging the Gap between Ecologists and Planners
Jonathan Mullard MIEEM

Trunk Road Design and Mitigation, including Planning and Examples of Best Practice
Andrew Mackenzie MIEEM (Transport for Scotland & MBEC)

Addressing Uncertainty: Using Adaptive Management for Mitigation and Monitoring
Joseph Ferris (Parsons Brinckerhoff) and Dorothy Gibb (AH Consultants)

Habitat Creation: What's the Point?
Cameron Crook MIEEM (Cameron Crook Associates)

Environmental Mitigation Works: the Development of Manchester Airport's Second Runway - 10 Years On
Tim Walmsley CEnv MIEEM (Manchester Airport)

Low Tech Mitigation for High Tech Travel: the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Revisited
Mick Hall CEnv MIEEM (Arup)

Cairngorm Monitoring Scheme: Successful Mitigation of Development in a Highly Sensitive Area
Cathy Mordaunt CEnv MIEEM (Mountain Environment Services)

Lateral Thinking: Mitigation on the A77 Widening Scheme
Emma Roper MIEEM (Atkins)

Millersneuk Wetland: Conserving and Enhancing a Water Vole Population through Mitigation
Peter Cosgrove MIEEM (Envirocentre)

Great Crested Newt Mitigation: Are we getting it Right?
Dorian Latham CEnv MIEEM (Halcrow) and Brett Lewis MIEEM (Durrell Institute of Conservation andEcology, University of Kent)

Reptile Mitigation: Conservation or Just Killing them Slowly?
Jon Cranfield MIEEM (Herpetological Ltd)

Bat Mitigation: From Despair to Where?
Conor Kelleher AIEEM (Chairman, Bat Conservation Ireland)

Thinking Like A Badger: Mitigation Design and Management Planning
Kat Dennis (Halcrow) & Ann O'Leary (Halcrow)

Mitigation for Butterflies
Paul Kirkland MIEEM and Sam Ellis (Butterfly Conservation Scotland)

Mitigating for a Large Housing Development in an Ecologically Sub-Prime Landscape
William Latimer CEnv MIEEM (Faber Maunsell)

Mitigation on Pipeline Projects
Brian Minshull CEnv MIEEM (BCM Environmental Services) - the presentation is too large to put onto the website and is therefore omitted.

Habitat Restoration at Novar Windfarm: Ten Years of Upland Monitoring at Scotland's First Large Windfarm
Tom Dargie CEnv MIEEM (Boreas Ecology)

Mitigation of People Pressures on the Dorset Heaths SPA/SAC/Ramsar Sites
Heather Tidball MIEEM and Phil Sterling (Dorset Urban Heaths Project)

The Fall and Rise of Abberton Reservoir: Enhancing a Special Protection Area through Development
Prof David Hill CEnv FIEEM (David Hill Ecology & Environment) and Miranda Davis MIEEM (Essex &Suffolk Water)

Large Scale Mitigation: The Broadland Flood Alleviation Project
Helen Markwell CEnv MIEEM (Halcrow)

Salvage Translocation: Designed Mitigation or Last Ditch Compensation?
John Box CEnv FIEEM (Atkins) and Katrena Stanhope CEnv MIEEM (Atkins)

The Challenge of Building an Evidence Base for Mitigation
Prof Andrew Pullin (Centre for Evidence Based Conservation, University of Bangor)