Resonance: Uplands and Protected Landscapes Big Tent event programme announcement

The programme for the upcoming Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People in UK Uplands and Protected Landscapes Big Tent event in Cumbria on the 27th and 28th of March 2025 has been announced.

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This Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People (LUNZ) Hub gathering, led by the PLACE Collective in collaboration with the Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas, will focus on land use, landscapes, livelihoods and cultures in the UK’s uplands and protected landscapes. With a participatory and creative framework, and a chance to see places of transformational change, it will bring in perspectives from farming, forestry, peatland restoration, conservation, land management, economics, science, community initiatives and policy – and it will make space for listening to the land, plants and critters we humans live alongside.

The gathering will be an opportunity to learn more about site-specific changes, and meet others from many specialisms. Outputs will feed into discussions and actions within and beyond the LUNZ Hub around the key themes of enabling just transitions; improving exchange of knowledge, evidence and insights to better link policy and practice; acknowledging the interplay of nature, people and climate; and discussing possible futures for ‘kith and kin’: place and people, landscapes and cultures. There will be a conference report, as well as illustration and poetry inspired by the day.

The content of this gathering builds on multi-stakeholder meetings facilitated through the LUNZ Hub, including events held across Cumbria to co-create a living tree sculpture as part of the Resonance project (https://theplacecollective.org/resonance/)

To book, and for more information, follow this link.