Do your actions cause starvation? 
            What is the future for the developing world?
              What sort of development is sustainable?     
                                  

                          The Great Debate
                  (http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/)

                              presents 
                                  
                       a day of discussion on
                                  
             Development, Sustainability and Environment
                                  
                          10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 
                       Saturday 27th September
                             Leazes Room
                            Civic Centre
                         Newcastle upon Tyne
                                  
                           ADMISSION FREE
                                  
                Admission to this event is free, but 
                      PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

       Contact Ruth Murray, Local Agenda 21, Newcastle upon Tyne

                        Tel: 0191 211 5633
                                   
               Environmental Ideas in the 21st Century
               What Future for the Developing World? 
                     Sustainability Here and Now
                                  
                         Event Sponsored by

       Peer Review for European Sustainable Development (PreSud)
                         

               Full details of this event can be found at:

            http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/GDDSEBlurb.html

                            
                                  
Development, Sustainability and Environment

Convened by Caspar Hewett, Dave O’Toole and Jon Bryan
                                  

Session 1: Environmental Ideas in the 21st Century

Chair: Dave O'Toole, The Great Debate
												
Speakers:
Derek Bell, Leverhulme Research Fellow in Politics, University of Newcastle
Joe Kaplinsky, Technology Analyst
Mary Mellor, author The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy

Environmental ideas are taught in schools, discussed in the House of Commons and debated at
world summits, but what does it mean to be an environmentalist today? This session will look 
at the impact of the environmental movement, what is behind the mainstreaming of environmental 
ideas and what consequences this has for the future. 


Session 2: What Future for the Developing World? 

Chair: Mo Lovatt, The Great Debate

Speakers:
Ceri Dingle, Director, WORLDwrite
Geoff Parkin, Lecturer in Sustainable Hydrology, Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory
(WRSRL), currently working on Middle East water resources projects
Jan Simmonds, Christian  Aid North East

The term sustainable development is defined as 'development which meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' [Brundtland  
Report]. Where does this leave present generations? What can the developing world realistically 
aspire to?

Session 3: Sustainability Here and Now

Chair: Viv Regan, Assistant Director, WORLDwrite

Speakers:
Allen Creedy, Project Director, Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development (PreSud),
Directorate of Enterprise,  Environment & Culture, Newcastle City Council
James Heartfield, editor Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age

Over the last decade work has been undertaken at international, national and local levels to 
advance sustainable urban development. The final session of the day will be a discussion about 
the benefits or otherwise of the sustainability paradigm in the context of the developed world. 
Contrasting views of sustainability will be offered by two prominent speakers on this important 
issue.