Craats, Daan van de (2022) The social impacts of airport expansion: The case of Lelystad Airport. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
In this research paper, a closer look is taken at the expansion of the Lelystad Airport. Especially the communication between governmental organisations such as the ministry of Infrastructure & Watermanagent (I&W) and the Airport itself and with the citizens living close to the airport is a key focus point. This study focuses on how certain impacts associated with the expansion of Lelystad airport are communicated towards citizens living nearby and how grievance mechanisms are implemented for citizens to use. This study utilises semi structured interviews to gain insight into this topic. The results of the interviews shows that there is a clear divide between on the one hand what the airport and others are required to do by law in the context of informing and engaging citizens and what citizens would prefer. Feelings of not being taken seriously and requests and feedback falling on deaf ears was the most common response given by the interviewees. The interviewed governmental agencies indicate that they try to inform and take into account the wishes of people as best as possible. However at the same time they do not perform a formal SIA to really get insight into what people want and need. The purpose of SIA is to identify impacts and propose mitigation measures. Especially an SIA with good stakeholder engagement is needed so that all parties involved are taken into consideration. However in typical Dutch fashion no SIA was conducted by the Dutch government as it is not a formal requirement when conducting large scale infrastructure projects. This study recommends creating a requirement to conduct SIA before any major infrastructure projects as well as creating more transparency during the project in order to keep citizens better informed about what is happening and also allow citizens to be more engaged with projects that affect them.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Hanna de Almeida Oliveira, P. |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 07:28 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 07:28 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3844 |
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