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<td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 30px;">Fifth Annual ICLRD Conference
<strong>Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, Out of Recession</strong>
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Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen
21-22 January 2010
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Thank you for joining us for the Fifth Annual ICLRD conference. We have created an online forum to build on the discussions held during the course of the conference. We will post the abstracts and presentations as they become available together with the questions posed by the Chairs as a starting-point for the online discussion.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">The theme of this year’s event is </span><span lang="en-US"><em>Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, out of Recession</em></span><span lang="en-US">. The conference is organised into four sessions:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a href="../2010-conference/session-1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Session 1: Health Check on Economic Development, Planning and Infrastructure</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">The presentations will set the context for the conference in identifying the planning responses critical to positioning for the upturn, economic recovery and long-term sustainable growth.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a href="../2010-conference/session-2"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Session 2: Planning and Economic Recovery – The Social and Community Dimension</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">This session will explore how the vitality and competitiveness of regions and places is as much dependent on social and community qualities as natural and infrastructural endowments and the issues in meeting social and community development requirements in a very challenging economic context.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a href="../2010-conference/session-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Session 3: Building the Platform for Economic Recovery</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">The session will explore strategic issues arising in repositioning regional and national economies to recover from the current economic context.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a href="../2010-conference/session-4"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Session 4: Recovery through Collaborative Spatial Planning</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">This session will bring the conference to a conclusion by focusing on the types on planning policies and initiatives essential to regional and island level economic recovery and sustainable development.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Speakers included: Declan Kelly, US Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland;  John Fitzgerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI);  Pat McArdle, Economist and Irish Times Columnist; Conor Skehan of the   Dublin Institute of Technology; Wesley Shannon of the Department of  Environment, Northern Ireland; Hubert Kearns of Sligo County Council;  Charlotte Kahn of the Boston Foundation’s Indicators Project; Holly St.  Clair, Boston Metropolitan Planning Council; Celine McHugh of Forfás;  Martin Spollen of the Strategic Investment Board; Brian Murray, The  Workspace Group; and Greg Lloyd of the University of Ulster.</p>