AUSTROADS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY: PREPARING AUSTROADS TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFECTIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

An AUSTROADS Environmental Strategy (incorporating Environmental Principles) has been developed to guide AUSTROADS and its member authorities in a direction which will ensure effective environmental management of the roadsystem and its further development. The AUSTROADS Environmental Goal is "to promote a road transport system which addresses community access needsand reflects an appropriate balance amongst environmental, economic and social equity issues within the broader framework of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD)/Sustainable Development (SM)". This paper provides an outline of the strategy which has been developed to attain this goal, its development and the national and international context in which it is set. (a) For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD abstract no.861222.

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  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Cooper, M
  • HATTON, P
  • MATTHEWS, R
• Conference:
  • 17TH ARRB CONFERENCE, GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, 15-19 AUGUST 1994; PROCEEDINGS; VOLUME 17, PART 7
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 173-90

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Development; Environment; Management; Planning; Policy; Roads
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8006: Australia; 8525: Conference; 9013: Development; 2455: Environment; 2755: Highway; 143: Planning; 173: Policy
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00669829
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 23 1994 12:00AM