Preliminary List of Speakers

Speakers at the Opening Ceremony

Dr. Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons, Council of Europe
Dr. Frantisek Pelc, Deputy Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic
Dr. Rut Bizkova, Deputy Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic
Mgr. Jiri Zimola, Governor of the Region of South Bohemia
Dr. Michal Marek, Director ISBE, Czech Academy of Sciences

Key-note speakers (alphabetically)

Dejeant-Pons, Maguelonne. Council of Europe - ELC directorate.
    The contribution local communities can play in implementing the ELC
Dobrucka, Lucia. Trnva self-governing Region (Sk).
    Skalica and Trnava region: examples of local implementation of the ELC
Gittins, John. Cheshire Landscape Trust (UK)
    Local Action for Local Places - Grounding the European Landscape Convention
Herwaarden, Gerrit-Jan van. CIVILSCAPE.
    Non Governmental Organisations for the�European Landscape Convention
Kucova, Vera. National Institute For Monument Care (CZ)
    Man-made landscape of high natural value: the challenge of combining preservation and
    economic use.
Mayans, Jaume. Architect, Expert in Landscape Planning / RECEP-ENELC (ES).
    The landscape as an argument. A proposal for a new spatial planning policy based on
    the European Landscape Convention in the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)
Priore, Riccardo. RECEP / ENELC (IT).
    The European Landscape Convention: a litmus test for the exercise of local and regional     authorities’ public responsibilities
Roberts, Gareth. Landscape Research Group (UK).
    What makes for good practice in implementing the European Landscape
    Convention?
Spiegler, Arthur. ECOVAST Austria (AT)
    Setting Landscape quality objectives � making local views count

Workshop convenor and speakers for short presentations

For more details on the convenors of the workshops, please look at the page on the workshops

For more details on the speakers at the short presentations and a schedule of those presentations, please download the final program.