NATURE ACROSS MOTORWAYS
NATUUR OVER WEGEN
This book was written at the request of the Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division (DWW) of the Dutch Department for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat). It discusses the negative impacts of motorways in the Netherlands on nature and the measures that are taken to reduce these negative impacts. Rijkswaterstaat distinguishes four types of impacts: (1) habitat destruction; (2) disturbance to habitats; (3) roads as barriers; and (4) wounding and killing of animals by road traffic. The series of coordinated means used to counter these impacts is: (a) avoidance; (b) mitigation; (c) compensation; and (d) optimization. With respect to these measures the knowledge and experience gained by Rijkswaterstaat in recent years is presented on three subdomains: (1) fragmentation and consolidation; (2) management of motorway verges; and (3) compensation for ecological features. Each chapter is accompanied by descriptions of some relevant projects that have been implemented in these fields.
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Availability:
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Corporate Authors:
DIENST WEG- EN WATERBOUWKUNDE (DWW)
VAN DER BURGHWEG 1
DELFT, Netherlands 2628 CS - Publication Date: 1995
Language
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Media Info
- Pagination: 103 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Animals; Ecology; Ecosystems; Environmental engineering; Environmental protection; Freeways; Habitat (Ecology); Maintenance; Road shoulders; Roadside fauna; Vegetation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Roads as barriers
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands
- ITRD Terms: 2459: Animal; 2866: Barrier effect (transp infrastructure); 2457: Ecological engineering; 2466: Ecosystem; 3847: Maintenance; 2752: Motorway; 2448: Nature protection; 8078: Netherlands; 2821: Roadside; 2488: Vegetation
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00715758
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: DIENST WEG- EN WATERBOUWKUNDE (DWW)
- ISBN: 9036937027
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Jan 31 1996 12:00AM