National Parks land use conflicts

We are about to embark on a couple of weeks of work looking at land use conflicts in the Yorkshire Dales National Park for the RLR section of Paper 2. It is important, however, to remember that the theme of land use conflicts is repeated in all national parks - in fact, it is a recurring theme in most rural areas of Britain. While it is important to know specific detail about a case study area (for us this will be the Yorkshire Dales), you should also be able to apply what you are learning to other areas and be able to comment on likely conflicts and ways of resolving them. With this in mind, here are a few resources you could explore...

The first looks at conflicts in the Peak District National Park (the extractive industry shown here on the left is just one of those conflicts). Click the image to link.

The second is an extract from the Wikipedia page on National parks in England and Wales . It is a more general overview of land use conflicts in national parks but has a lot of useful links to explore.

Finally, here is a decision- making exercise which looks at the conflicts of land use which are related to tourism within an imaginary national park. This would be well worth looking at - especially as tourist related activity is the first land use in the Dales which we will be studying in class.