Golf and the European Regional Development Fund
April 27, 2008
Grant aid from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is financing the development of new golf courses across Europe.
The ERDF is the second largest EU financial mechanism, after the Common Agricultural Policy. It provides grant aid to the poorest regions in the EU ranked according to GDP per capita to part-finance investment projects which [...]
Environmental Impact Assessment: Doonbeg
April 27, 2008
There is inevitable potential for conflict between the aims of economic development and the aims of environment policy.
Over the years, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has evolved to counter criticisms that ERDF programmes and projects failed to take account of environmental concerns.
In the 1990s, two large-scale Irish golf projects brought this question of the [...]