How National Parks can help the environment
National Parks can promote and support environmentally friendly schemes that reduce carbon consumption without creating an industrial landscape (eg micro-hydro schemes, farm-scale wind turbines, community bio-mass energy production).
It may be that some valuable aspects of rural life in a proposed area are being or might be subject to threat because of lack of protection and sustainability. In these circumstances a National Park can help protection, promotion and so sustainment of rural ways of life, eg by:
• assisting and coordinating agricultural businesses, if requested, in maximising the impact of public money for public good and environmental stewardship (there is evidence that, in the UK, farmers who farm within National Parks receive proportionately greater shares of such subsidies than those who farm outside NP boundaries).
• promoting and supporting the training of young working age residents in rural trades and crafts
• working with landowners to support and benefit from such training
• encouraging civic festival organisers to use their annually selected principals to champion locally produced food and drink, traditional industries (in the Scottish Borders, textiles and woollens), and artistic endeavour (in the Scottish Borders there is already an annual film festival, 'Alchemy' for avant grade artists working with moving images, this could be broadened and promoted via a National Park).
A National Park could also encourage small business renting out electric bicycles and electric cars for tourists and residents alike.
Why the contribution is important
Scottish Government has indicated that it wants to know how National Parks can help the environment.
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