This paper reports on a survey of stakeholder views on airport environmental capacity, commissioned by EUROCONTROL. The survey found divergent opinion on the role of environmental limits in conceptions of environmental capacity. While there is widespread agreement that environmental constraints...

Environmental factors and public perceptions already constrain growth at many airports—especially in Europe—and are likely to further constrain aviation in future. In this paper, the way in which these factors influence airport development is considered, together with methods of...