The Moray House School of Education
Research - Themes & Projects

Lead researcher

Professor Peter Higgins (Physical Education, Sport & Leisure Studies, School of Education) University of Edinburgh

Keywords

Social and economic impact of sporting estates; hunting; hillwalking; mountaineering; recreational land use; recreational economy; landownership in Scotland

Abstract

A preliminary analysis of the social and economic impact of sporting estates.

This work reviews published literature on highland sporting estates and develops themes associated with the rationale for the existence of such forms of landholding. It further explores the relative economic and social contribution of this form of recreation (hunting, primarily of deer and grouse) and other forms of recreation which use the same space (eg mountaineering and hillwalking).
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Publications

Higgins, P. (2000) Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education and the Economy of Scotland. Horizons, 7, 24-29.
Higgins, P., Jackson, J. & Jarvie G. (1997) Deer Forests and the Aristocracy: Some Preliminary Observations.Scottish Centre Research Papers in Sport, Leisure and Society, 2, 32 - 52. Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh.
Jarvie, G. & Higgins, P. (1996) The Decline & Rise of Scottish Sporting Estates & Elites in the 1990s? Proc. World Leisure & Recreation Association International Conference, Cardiff, UK, July 1996.
Jarvie, G., Jackson, L. & Higgins, P.(1997) Scottish Affairs, Sporting Estates and the Aristocracy, Scottish Affairs, 19, 121-140.
Wightman, A., Higgins, P., Jarvie, G. & Nicol, R. (under review) Hunting and Hillwalking: Sporting Estates and Recreational Land Use in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. (Submitted to Leisure Studies)
Wightman, A. & Higgins, P. (in press) Sporting Estates and the Recreational Economy of Scotland. (Scottish Affairs)

Funder /amount

Several Moray House and University of Edinburgh awards including a Moray Endowment Grant