Wildlife And Roads: The Ecological Impact

by John Burton (Editor), David Cutler (Editor), J Marsden (Editor), Bryan Sherwood (Editor)

Overview

Wildlife and Roads: The Ecological Impact is a timely publication, as there are growing concerns about the impact made by roads on the environment. Many of the aspects of the complex problem of siting new roads and lessening their negative environmental effects are addressed by contributors who are specialists in their respective subject areas. Among the topics discussed are legal aspects, transport interests, planners' and contractors' viewpoints, plant and animal ecology, and innovative solutions to some of the problems that roads inevitably impose on the natural environment.The articles are based on papers presented at a meeting held by the Linnean Society of London. Each author has made revisions for this book where necessary to reflect current circumstances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860943218
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	06/07/2002
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Contributors	vii
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Preface	xiii
1	Wildlife and roads: a Government perspective	1
2	Requirements of EU and UK wildlife legislation	7
3	Highways and wildlife in the UK: the Highways Agency view	21
4	Statutory agencies and roads: English Nature	27
5	Balancing environment and transport	35
6	Treatment of biodiversity issues in road Environmental Impact Assessments	41
7	Transport and sustainable development	69
8	Transport and the biodiversity action plan	83
9	The constructor's experience: the designers response	91
10	The constructor's experience: the contractor response	95
11	Public opinion, wildlife and roads	101
12	The ecological impact of air pollution from roads	113
13	The ecological effects of road lighting	133
14	Design, build, fund, and operate: ecological issues during the construction of privately financed road schemes	157
15	Environmental impacts of transport infrastructure: habitat fragmentation and edge effects	161
16	Roads as barriers	169
17	Roads and habitat corridors for animals and plants	185
18	A decision support system for roadside deadwood	199
19	Are roads harmful or potentially beneficial to butterflies and other insects?	203
20	Measures to protect amphibians and reptiles from road traffic	223
21	Disturbance by traffic as a threat to breeding birds: valuation of the effect and considerations in planning and managing road corridors	249
22	Wildlife mortality: head-on collisions	269
23	The A36 Salisbury bypass: Case Study One	287
24	M40 Shabbington habitat creation area: Case Study Two	293

Editorial Reviews

Two dozen articles by UK contributors (except for two) discuss the impact of roads on wildlife and support policies such as the British Biodiversity Action Plan (1994), which take ecological factors and public opinion into greater account in building roads. Sherwood is with the Linnean Society, which sponsored a symposium in 1998 at which versions of these papers were presented. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR