land: how to make decisions for 100 years hence

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Blake Lapthorn's Climate Change team were pleased to welcome Harry Barton, Chief Executive of Northmoor Trust, as its third speaker in the fifth series of green breakfasts held in Oxford on 3 November 2010. Harry's slides will be available shortly.

When making decisions today about land use how far into the future do we look? Do we give due consideration to the challenges of climate change and sustainability when making those decisions? Do our decisions have an impact in five years, ten years or twenty years? How often do we look beyond the near term future when making decisions about how we use and manage our land? If we extend our vision and planning to look at fifty or even one hundred years hence how would this impact on the decisions we make today in this regard? Harry Barton, Chief Executive of Northmoor Trust looked at high level considerations for long term land management planning and decision making together with some practical examples of how these issues have been considered and dealt with at the Northmoor Trust.

The Northmoor Trust is based in South Oxfordshire and manages an estate of 300 hectares, including Little Wittenham Nature Reserve and Wittenham Clumps, a conservation farm, a woodland dedicated to forestry research and Project Timescape, the Trust's visitor centre.