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...manage the demands of different users, whilst still conserving natural beauty?...[A bike parked up on a hill overlooking the Cairngorm Mountains ] The Cairngorm Mountains in the north-eastern highlands of Scotland gained National Park status in 2003. The area has been popular as a destination for outdoor activities for many years, and especially since the establishment of...

...management bodies have become autonomous from governments in de facto terms, undercutting national accountability. The author dismisses the traditional measures suggested to address this problem. For instance, empowering the European Parliament will not work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with...