Target Orientation for Ecologically Sound Road Management in Sweden
We emphasize the advantages of the new approach and conclude that target orientation helps to integrate environmental impact assessment into the planning and performance control system. It enhances landscape-ecological concern among planners and strengthens the dialogue between engineers and environmentalists. Target orientation requires an elaborate monitoring system that has roots in a profound ecological understanding. In order to monitor performance and to validate measures mitigating negative effects of landscape fragmentation, further methodological development and applied ecological research are necessary.
Keywords: EFFECT VALIDATION; ENVIRONMENT; IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE CONTROL; ROAD MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRAFFIC PLANNING
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 June 2005
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