In approximately 2500 words, write a research paper on aviation and its environmental impacts. Please choose a specific topic.
Because of its geographical location (an island community on the edge of continental Europe), air transport plays a particularly important role in supporting the social and economic development of the UK. But this reliance upon aviation poses significant challenges because of the local and Global environmental impacts that arise from the industry and the UK Governments commitments to sustainable development.
In recent years, this has been the subject of considerable debate as Heathrow Airport, the main aviation gateway to the UK and one of the largest international airports in the World, approaches capacity and proposals have been brought forward by its owners to construct a new runway.

The UK Governments perspective on sustainable development has been most recently outlined in the documents “Mainstreaming Sustainable Development” (published by DEFRA in 2011) and “Developing a sustainable framework for UK Aviation: Scoping document” (published by the Department for Transport in 2012). Heathrow Airport itself and major airlines have also published their own perspectives of sustainable development as have Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) such as Greenpeace, HACAN and the Aviation Environmental Federation. But users of airports, businesses and the general public also have their own views.
For this assignment you are required to provide an essay that :
• summarises the key social and economic impacts that are likely to arise from the construction and operation of a third runway at Heathrow
• describes the likely environmental and community consequences and explains how these could act as future constraints to growth
• reviews academic, aviation industry, NGO, Government and airport users publications to identify and critically compare different sectoral perspectives and definitions of sustainable development as it applies to the future growth of Heathrow Airport
• provides a reasoned argument as to how such benefits and costs could be weighed against each other and whether Heathrow should be given planning approval for a third runway
Note: You are not required to address issues such as the economic costs of construction, or the detailed operational implications of the development in any detail.

In approximately 2500 words, write a research paper on aviation and...