Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880-1980

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Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880-1980 Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: White Horse Press
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Pages: 340 Language: English ISBN: 9781912186532 Categories: ,

Contested Mountains is an historical study of the extraordinary changes in attitudes to Nature and the use of land in the Cairngorms region since 1880. The study looks at early visitor perceptions of the region and the history of rights of way disputes in the area. It also presents an environmental history of the osprey in Scotland, and the history and development of Glenmore National Forest Park, the Aviemore tourist industry, the Cairngorms National Nature Reserve and the Cairngorms National Park ideal. Contested Mountains is essential reading for anyone interested in the historical background to present-day debates about land-use and access in the Cairngorms.

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'A book which will be welcomed by anyone and everyone with an interest in the Cairngorms, in the environment and in the long continuing tensions between the imperatives of nature conservation on the one hand and the demands of popular recreation and business development on the other...it is a strictly historical and disciplined recount of the way in which the still-unresolved issues of the environment versus competing economic requirements developed.'; Magnus Magnusson 'This welcome addition to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.'; Angus J.L. Winchester - H-Net; '... well written and easy to follow' Gordon Whitney - Environmental History