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Seminar | Bergen
Seminar Cultural Heritage and Water Management successful and inspiring.
The seminar on Cultural Heritage and Water Management, held at Bryggen in Bergen (Norway) on June 8-9, 2010 has been a success. With almost 70 participants from a range of professional backgrounds, the seminar provided a successful platform for interdisciplinary discussions and knowledge exchange. 
For the first time, cultural heritage management was clearly linked to urban land and water management. This led to awareness raising among both cultural heritage managers and urban land and water managers on how to integrate these two worlds. Different stakeholders in the urban development process learned about the role and vulnerability of cultural heritage as a non-renewable resource in urban land and water planning.
Presenters and participants discussed technical and procedural solutions on how to embed cultural heritage in urban planning. It became clear that early and clear communication in the planning process is most essential for a proper embedding of cultural heritage protection within a real sustainable urban land and water development.
The presentations and programme booklet including the abstracts are now available as downloadable pdfs.
Programma booklet [pdf 1,2 mb]
Presentations, as downloadable pdf files:
- Surface water management requirements for the mid 21st Century City | John Blanksby [pdf]
- Bryggen and the elements earth, water, fire and air | Ann Christensson [pdf]
- The Bryggen project, need for water (management | Hans de Beer, Jann Atle Jensen [pdf]
- Ground Water Management in urban planning | Hans de Beer [pdf]
- The planning service | John Hogg [pdf]
- SUDS for high density location | Chris Jefferies [pdf]
- Local Effects of Global Climate Change on the urban drainage system of Hamburg | Klaus Krieger [pdf]
- Cultural Heritage: what are we trying to preserve? | Henning Matthiesen [pdf]
- Managing the ground surface water exus in urban areas | Jadranka Milina [pdf]
- Challenges in modelling stormwater runoff and filtrattion for urban water management | Tone Muthanna [pdf
- Embedding cultural heritage protection and sustainable water management in urban planning | Margrethe Tviberg [pdf]
- Urban drainage and climate | Maria Viklander [pdf]
- In-situ preservation and water management in the Netherlands | Michel Vorenhout, Martine van den Berg [pdf]
- Implementing regulations in the real world | Louise Walker [pdf]
The Norwegian SKINT team would like to thank all participants and speakers for making this seminar a success, as well as the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway for hosting this event.