Irish Meteorological Society

1999 One Day Meeting

Meteorology and Sustainable Development

Saturday 24th April 1999

at the Doyle Tara Tower Hotel

Merrion Road, Dublin

Registration 10.30 am

Firstly the balance between natural resources and human needs will be outlined. Then Climate as a natural resource will be discussed. With these ideas in mind, sustainable techniques in building, food production and other commercial activities will be briefly reviewed.

Programme

• Registration and Coffee
• Keynote Address 1: Balancing natural resources and human need.
  • Prof Ted Farrell, Environmental Resource Management, UCD
• Keynote Address 2: Climate as a Natural Resource
  • Dr. G Mills, UCD

  Lunch 13:00 to 14:30

• Sustainable Architecture
  • Dr. J Owen Lewis, UCD
• Sustainable Agriculture.
  • Dr. Noel Culleton, Teagasc
• Sustainable Enterprise.
  • Dr. Pat Freyne , Director, University Industrial Programme, UCD
• Coffee

Meeting will be followed by the AGM of the Irish Meteorological Society.

Updated: 16/4/1999