MORE THAN LOCAL IMPACTS: AGGREGATE QUARRYING IN THE NATIONAL PARKS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Joe Weston, John Glasson, Elizabeth Wilson and Andrew Chadwick
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Joe Weston: Impact Assessment Unit, School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
John Glasson: Impact Assessment Unit, School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Wilson: Impact Assessment Unit, School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
Andrew Chadwick: Impact Assessment Unit, School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 1999, vol. 01, issue 02, 245-268

Abstract: Aggregate quarrying plays an important role in the local economy of the UK's national parks, providing local jobs and expenditure on local services. There are also adverse local impacts from traffic, dust, noise and blasting. However, it is the status of the parks as crucial features of the nation's landscape capital that increases the significance of localised landscape impacts to a level which outweighs any benefits that quarrying provides. This article is based upon commissioned research into the impact of quarrying on the national parks and assesses those impacts against the functions of the parks as nationally important designated landscapes.

Keywords: National parks; quarrying; employment; landscape; impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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