Land or lakes: gravel excavation in Dutch spatial and resources policies through the lens of sustainability developments, 1950–2015

Frank Veraart

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.023

Land or lakes: gravel excavation in Dutch spatial and resources policies through the lens of sustainability developments, 1950–2015

Frank Veraart (Corresponding author)

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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.

Translated title of the contribution	Land of plassen, grindwinning in ruimtelijk- en grondstoffenbeleid in Nederland vanuit het perspectief van duurzame ontwikkeling, 1950-2015
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	367-374
Number of pages	8
Journal	Land use policy
Volume	82
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.023
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2019

Funding

The research of this article was part of the project Historical Roots of the Dutch Sustainability Challenge: The Impact of the Utilization of Material Resources on the Modernization of Dutch Society, 1850-2010. This project was granted by the Dutch Research Council NWO (Project number 360-69-010). I want to thank my colleagues in this program, Harry Lintsen, Jan-Pieter Smits, Jon Grin, Fred Lambert, Ben Gales and Rick Hölsgens for comments on this research. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the 8th Tensions of Europe Conference in Athens, 7-10 September 2017. I want to thank the session organizers Elena Kochetkova & Matthias Heymann of the Research Group on Technologies, Environment and Resources and the commentators from the audience. Furthermore I want to thank Erik van de Vleuten for comments on earlier versions of this article. Appendix A

UN SDGs

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SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Building materials
Environment
European Union
Excavation
Extracting industries
Government
Gravel
History
Mining
NGO
Resource policies
Spatial policies
Sustainability
Temporal dynamics
The Netherlands
Tourism
Transnational

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Land or lakes: gravel excavation in Dutch spatial and resources policies through the lens of sustainability developments, 1950–2015

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