LSE Literary Festival 2017 | The Fight for Beauty: Our path to a better future [Audio]

Speaker(s): Dame Fiona Reynolds, Professor Giles Atkinson and Nicholas Crane | We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can't be given a monetary value and it's getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can't buy, including our future. Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple - to inspire us through the beauty of the world around us. Delving into our past, examining landscapes, nature, farming and urbanisation, she shows how ideas about beauty have arisen and evolved, been shaped by public policy, been knocked back and inched forward until they arrived lost in the economically-driven spirit of today. Giles Atkinson is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Giles was a member of the UK Natural Capital Committee from 2012-2015 (an independent body advising HM Government on the unsustainable use of UK natural capital) and was a member