Defending environmental democracy

Panel discussion organised by Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland and Planning Democracy on how we can best mobilise in defence of environmental democracy.

How did newts and bats become public enemy number one under the UK’s first self-purported ‘green chancellor‘? Why is a Labour government accommodating private developers’ every whim and what does this mean for Scotland?

Speakers:

• Lesley Riddoch, writer and broadcaster
• Laurie McFarlane, Co-Director, Future Economy Scotland
• Malcolm Tait, Professor of Planning, University of Sheffield
• Dr Kiera Chapman, Research Fellow in Nature, Attention and Biodiversity, Oxford University

Join the conversation on how to respond to the screeching hostility to planning and environmental concerns, and combat the rise of right-wing populism coinciding with the UK government’s embrace of a deregulatory, growth-at-all-costs agenda.

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