Abstract
Airport capacity continues to be one of the air transport issues that
creates the most concern. The major environmental constraint for
airports is the noise generated by aircraft. Annoyed communities
living around airports have become a limiting factor for airport
capacity and operability. This paper brings together the existing
literature in the fields of airport environmental capacity, non-acoustic
factors of noise annoyance, NIMBYism and environmental conflicts.
We also analyze the socio-environmental conflict between Barcelona
airport and the community of Gavà Mar. This case shows that the lack
of trust between parties, the impossibility of predicting noise exposure,
the absence of opportunities for civil society to speak and the difficulty
of accessing relevant information foster annoyance and mobilization
in the communities that live around the airport. In addition, it
is shown that, in such a situation, communities’ reactions can evolve
to a post-NIMBY stage in which proactive attitudes replace reactive
ones.
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