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Conference Program
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Young Leaders Forum
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Conference presentations available through following links below:
Conference Program – Day One (Tuesday 20 May)
Facilitator: Kelvyn Eglinton, Strategy Director,
Auckland Regional Physical Activity and Sport Strategy
Welcome & Official Opening |
Time |
Description |
Speaker |
8.30 – 9.30 |
Powhiri
Incorporating welcome to conference, welcome to Auckland, tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary, and Launch of Value of Parks document.
(read speech from Hon. Steve Chadwick here) |
Ngarimu Blair, Heritage Environment Manager, Ngati Whatua o Orakei.
Lance Vervoort, General Manager - Parks, Auckland Regional Council
Mike Lee, Chair, Auckland Regional Council
Hon. Steve Chadwick, Minister of Conservation. |
Our Changing World
How is our world changing demographically, politically, environmentally, technically and economically?
A global and regional outlook. |
9.30 – 10.40 |
Engaging the hearts and minds of Canadians
Presentation / Abstract |
Carol Sheedy, Director, External Relations and Visitor Experience Directorate,Parks Canada, Canada |
Climate change and parks
Presentation / Abstract |
Dr David Wratt, Principal Scientist with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Wellington and Leader of the National Climate Centre |
10.40 – 11.10 |
MORNING TEA – Sponsored by DLA Philips Fox |
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11.15 – 11.50 |
Environmental challenge: The short and long of it
Presentation / Abstract |
Al Morrison, Chief Executive and Director-General, Department of Conservation.Hosted by the Department of Conservation |
Irrelevant, Nice to Have or Key to the World’s Future?
Are parks irrelevant, nice to have or key to the world’s future in the context of future world trends? What if there was a world without parks, public land and open space? How could that impact and affect the world socially, environmentally, economically or culturally? |
11.50 – 12.50 |
Parks versus food and fibre production
Presentation / Abstract |
Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Institute of Public Affairs |
12.50 – 1.40 |
LUNCH |
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1.45 – 3.30 |
Urban Parks: Key to the World’s Future
Presentation / Abstract |
Steve Coleman, Executive Director, Washington Parks and Chair of City Parks Alliance, USA
Hosted by Boffa Miskell |
Park values – how well are they understood?
Presentation / Abstract |
Dr David Cochrane, Economic Advisory Group, Ernst and Young
Hosted by Ernst & Young |
A World without Parks? It makes you sick to think of it!
Presentation / Abstract |
Associate Professor Mardie Townsend, Associate Head of School (SPD), Deakin University |
3.30 – 4.00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
Healthy Parks Healthy People Break |
4.00 – 5.00 |
‘World without Parks’ hypothetical.
An exploration of future scenarios for our society and the impacts on parks. |
Sorrel Wilby, Adventurer, Filmmaker and Author
Hosted by Treescape |
5.00 – 5.15 |
Wrap-up Day One |
Kelvyn Eglinton, Strategy Director
Auckland Regional Physical Activity and Sport Strategy |
5.30 – 7.00 |
Welcome Function: Hosted by Auckland City Council |
Councillor G. Moyle, Chair of Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee, Auckland City Council |
Conference Program – Day Two (Wednesday 21 May)
Conference Field Trips: 8.30am – 5.00pm
Delegates to meet at the New Zealand Maritime Museum at 8.30am. Leaders will be holding coloured signs which correspond with colours displayed on the back of name tags. |
Site Tour Group 1 |
Site Tour Group 2 |
Site Tour Group 3 |
Site Tour Group 4 |
Site Tour Group 5 |
Blue Skies – Green Fields |
Volcanic Auckland – Extinct Cultural Monoliths or Living Legends? |
From Ranges to Sea |
Crimson and Clover |
Tawharanui Open Sanctuary
Parks Forum Peer Review |
Co-hosted by Auckland City Council and Manukau City Council |
Co-hosted by Auckland City Council and Manukau City Council |
Hosted by Waitakere City Council |
Hosted by the Department of Conservation |
Hosted by Auckland Regional Council |
Opportunities and challenges in urban and park planning are discussed from a bird’s eye perspective of the evolving Auckland waterfront from the Sky Tower and greenfields development of Flatbush new town and its great park in Manukau City. |
Visit sites in Auckland and Manukau’s volcanic field and review their management as potential world heritage sites co-managed with Maori, as indigenous peoples, and the community. Opportunities will be presented for how these culturally significant sites can be used to involve and inform people about the stories of the mountain, and protect their archaeological and geological values. |
Take a journey from the sea along a stream corridor park connecting to the Waitakere Ranges Regional parkland. Examples of park developments, community initiatives and conservation management policies and programs will highlight the challenges faced and potential of green corridor parks within the urban fabric of a city. |
Visit Rangitoto and Motutapu Islands in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, one of the places where the DOC Auckland Conservancy is developing the next 10-year Conservation Management Strategy to set the development direction of significant areas, including these Gulf islands. Explore a wide range of management aspects of these twin island reserves, in the backyard of the Auckland CBD. |
Adjacent to a Marine Reserve on a peninsula north of Auckland, this sanctuary showcases an integrated park management model of recreation, conservation and farming. Extensive restoration and enhancement work has taken place. Volunteer and inter-agency partnerships exist and visitor numbers are growing. This field trip will follow the Parks Forum Peer Review framework. |
Conference Dinner: 7.00pm
New Zealand Maritime Museum. Speaker: Sorrell Wilby, Adventurer, Filmmaker and Author |
Conference Program – Day Three (Thursday 22 May)
Facilitator: Kelvyn Eglinton, Strategy Director,
Auckland Regional Physical Activity and Sport Strategy
Emerging/ Alternative Models of Parks Management
How can the benefits of parks be delivered via alternative, non-traditional models?
Why are alternative models needed? Can these models address future challenges? |
Time |
Description |
Speaker |
8.30 – 10.40 |
The Nature Conservancy: working across boundaries
Presentation / Abstract |
Dr Michael Looker, Director - Australia Program, The Nature Conservancy |
Community participation in ecological restoration
Presentation / Abstract |
Peter Lee, Chair, Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi
Hosted by Cornwall Park Trust Board Inc. |
From Mountain to City
Presentation / Abstract |
Russell Watkinson, Director, ACT Department of Territory and Municipal Services |
Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia
Presentation / Abstract |
Dr Dermot Smyth, Consultant in Indigenous involvement in protected area management and member of the Australian Government's Indigenous Protected Area Advisory Group, Smyth and Bahrdt Consultants |
10.40 – 11.05 |
MORNING TEA |
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Influencing and Changing the Agenda
Case studies of how these people or agencies identified and went about changing the social and/or political agenda. What were the keys to their success, the level of investment required, milestones and turning points? What might they do differently with hindsight? What is the role of leadership in changing the agenda? |
11.05 – 1.05 |
Te Kohanga Reo |
Kara Puketapu, CEO, Te Runanganui O Taranaki Whanui Ki Te Upoko O Te Ika A Maui Inc? |
Influencing the political agenda and creating opportunities to re-establish parks and green spaces as places of value and civic pride.
Presentation / Abstract |
Mark Camley, Chief Executive, Royal Parks, UK
Hosted by Auckland Regional Council |
Democratising Parks
Presentation |
Cr Sandra Coney, Chair of Parks and Heritage Commitee, Auckland Regional Council.
Hosted by Hudson |
Influencing the Purse Holders: The Role of Economics
Presentation / Abstract |
Basil Sharp, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Business & Economics, Auckland University |
1.05 – 2.00 |
LUNCH |
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Youth Forum Feedback Session |
2.00 – 2.30 |
Feedback from the Young Leaders Forum. |
Young Leader representative |
Workshop Session: Setting the Parks Industry Agenda |
2.30 – 3.45 |
Developing strategies for the park industry to adopt to address our Industry Agenda. |
Dr Digby Whyte, Manager - Manukau Parks, Manukau City Council |
| 3.45 - 4.15 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
Healthy Parks Healthy People Break option |
Panel Discussion: Industry Issues Paper |
4.15 – 5.00 |
Panel discussion, led by Kelvyn Eglinton. Picking up key themes from the conference. |
Kelvyn Eglinton, Carol Sheey, Rob Small, Hugh Logan: others tbc. |
Other associated events
Young Leaders Forum (co-hosted by Parks Forum & New Zealand Recreation Association)
A specially tailored program is on offer for aspiring young professionals in the parks, recreation and protected area sector: bringing them together and building their leadership capacity for future parks management and leadership.
Registration for the Young Leaders Forum includes:
- Joining delegates from the World without Parks? conference for an evening networking event on Tuesday 20 May
- The Young Leaders Forum on Wednesday 21 May. The program for this day is designed to cultivate leadership capacity in young professionals for future park management. It will offer young parks professionals the opportunity to explore contemporary parks issues, engage with parks industry leaders, and express their views on industry development.
- A half day site visit / networking opportunity on Thursday 22 May
(see Young Leaders Forum tab on left hand side for further details)
Indigenous Forum (kindly hosted by Ngarimu Blair, Ngati Whatua)
Date: Friday 23 May 2008
Time: 9am - 2pm
Location: Orakei Marae Kitemoana St - off Tamaki Drive
The Indigenous Forum will provide an opporunity for discussion to discuss an compare experiences on indigenous participation in protected area management in Australia and New Zealand.
Dialogue will be formed around some of these key areas:
- Formal arrangements for Indigenous participation in the governance and management of government-declared national parks, marine parks and other protected areas; how are these arrangements working?
- Opportunities and support for Indigenous management of Indigenous-declared protected areas, such as Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) in Australia;
- Recognition of Indigenous cultural values in the management of protected areas in Australia and New Zealand;
- Sustainable use and management of customary resources (e.g. Indigenous hunting) in protected areas;
- Opportunities for exchanges of Indigenous rangers and others between Australia and New Zealand.
To Register: contact Kylie Birch, Program Manager, Parks Forum at kyliebirch@parksforum.org / tel. +61 3 9416 2080
Workshops
Two specialised workshops on Parks Industry and Management Effectiveness Benchmarking and adoption of the Healthy Parks Healthy People promotional initiative for parks are on offer as additions to the conference on Firday 23 May. A small workshop fee will apply. See workshop tab on left for further information.
These workshops will be held at Mt Smart Stadium. Venue kindly supplied by the Auckland Regional Council.
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