 Land or lakes: Gravel excavation in Dutch spatial and resources policies through the lens of sustainability developments, 1950–2015Frank Veraart Land Use Policy, 2019, vol. 82, issue C, 367-374 Abstract: Excavations can cause tension between local spatial interests at excavation sites and the demand for national resources. Policymakers have to weigh up the choices in sustainability trade-offs between the geological and geographical aspects. This shows in the developments of resource and spatial policies. A novel historical approach investigates the long-term sustainable dynamics of gravel excavation and land use policies in the Netherlands in a transnational context, assessing the roles of local, national and international actors. Amid the gradual merging of land use and resource policies, this article reveals how local spatial and sustainability aspects prevailed and resulted in offshoring a geologically abundant natural resource and its connected sustainability issues. Keywords: Spatial policies; Resource policies; Temporal dynamics; Sustainability; History; Transnational; Gravel; Excavation; The Netherlands; Building materials; Environment; Tourism; Mining; Extracting industries; Government; NGO; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:82:y:2019:i:c:p:367-374 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.023 Access Statistics for this article Land Use Policy is currently edited by Jaap Zevenbergen More articles in Land Use Policy from Elsevier |
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