The ecological impact assessment of a proposed road development (the Slovak approach)

Igondová, Erika; Pavličková, K.; Majzlan, Oto

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.03.006

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“…In addition, LF can exacerbate the effects of climate change, by inducing a shrinking of habitats' resilience, species population, and ecosystems' variety (Kettunen et al, 2007). LF derives from deforestation, agricultural land conversion, and urbanization of natural areas, and it is extremely evident in urban or intensively used areas, where it is due, for example, to infrastructure network (Igondova et al, 2016;EEA, 2011;Jongman, 2004;Saunders et al, 1991) and urban development (Battisti and Romano, 2007;Jongman, 2004;Serrano et al, 2002). Maintaining ecosystem continuity is becoming a central element in spatial planning policies (Romano and Tamburini, 2001).…”

Section: Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity: A State Of The Art Summarymentioning

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Landscape fragmentation in Mediterranean Europe: A comparative approach

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Maintaining ecosystem continuity has become a central element in spatial planning policies. Several authors acknowledge the environmental, also known as landscape, fragmentation due to human action as one of the main causes which have negative effects on biodiversity. The phenomenon consists of the transformation of larger patches of habitat in smaller ones, or fragments, which tend to be more isolated than in the original condition. It is extremely evident in urban areas, including settlements and various transport and mobility infrastructures, whose main ecological effects include loss of habitat, increased mortality of plants, and isolation of animal and vegetal species. In this paper, we assess landscape fragmentation dynamics of six landscape units belonging to two European regions, i.e. Sardinia in Italy (from 2003 to 2008), and Andalusia in Spain (from 2005 to 2009). We developed on three indices: the Infrastructural Fragmentation Index (IFI), the Urban Fragmentation Index (UFI), and the Connectivity Index (CI). We found that coastal areas generally suffer from an higher pressure due to the demand of longer or faster transport infrastructures and new settlements and less fragmented areas tend to show the most relevant dynamics in a sort of convergent pattern. Even though landscape fragmentation and connectivity are intuitively complementary phenomena, in this paper we did not found any statistical evidence of this associative property.

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Landscape fragmentation in Mediterranean Europe: A comparative approach

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“…During the last two decades, the level of the anthropogenic influence of activities on the environment has significantly increased and is already correlated to the number of natural resources in the separate regions of the globe (Zaporozhets et al, 2017). Providing comfortable conditions for an individual, motorization as a category of social progress has a direct or indirect but inevitably negative impact on the ecological system (State Building Norms, 2003;Transportation Research Board, 2005;Igondova et al, 2016;Report, 1994). Thus, evaluation of the impact of the motorization processes on the environment is the tool to determine the impact.…”

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Evaluation of the Impact on the Environment at Building and Reconstruction of Motorways Using the System Analysis Method

Khrutba

Anpilova

Lukianova

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From the point of view of the system approach, the interrelation in the system “highway repair – environment” was investigated, which allowed systematizing the main aspects of environmental impact during the technological process of road repair. As a result of the parametric analysis of the subsystems that make up the system, the main groups of environmental parameters that are subject to the effects of technological processes of road repair were identified. The mathematical model of cause-effect relationships in the system under study allows identifying the main aspects of environmental impact during technological processes of road construction and reconstruction. Its application in environmental impact assessment allows forming a criteria base for environmental impact assessment. The article defines the relationship between the process of performing a certain stage of repair work on the project of construction of the highway of state importance N-31 Dnipro – Tsarychanka – Kobeliaky – Reshetylivka and its impact on the environment.

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“…Well-known cases of heavy metal pollution of forests via aerial deposition from smelting have occurred in North America and Europe [8,9], and although unmitigated pollution from smelting is no longer common, these historic episodes of smelting provide basic information about ecosystem response to heavy metals. Studies of impacts of mining on various measures of environmental quality and reclamation, for The importance, duration, reversibility, magnitude, and size of impacts are important to consider, with items such as traffic noise, air pollution, barrier effects, riparian and terrestrial fragmentation and habitat loss [16]. The effects in the secondary footprint gradually decline with distance from mines and the associated infrastructure, and the various types of impacts should always be defined in terms of ecological impacts judged to be significant and the distance and spatial pattern within which those effects are estimated to occur.…”

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“…Please note that primary and secondary footprints are subject to initial impacts as well as subsequent ecological cascade effects, which can originate from direct effects in the primary footprint and propagated effects in the secondary footprint ( Figure 2). The importance, duration, reversibility, magnitude, and size of impacts are important to consider, with items such as traffic noise, air pollution, barrier effects, riparian and terrestrial fragmentation and habitat loss [16]. The effects in the secondary footprint gradually decline with distance from mines and the associated infrastructure, and the various types of impacts should always be defined in terms of ecological impacts judged to be significant and the distance and spatial pattern within which those effects are estimated to occur.…”

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Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts of Sulfide Mining: Scope of Issues for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota, USA

Frelich

2019

Forests

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Large-scale metal mining operations are planned or underway in many locations across the boreal forest biome in North America, Europe, and Asia. Although many published analyses of mining impacts on water quality in boreal landscapes are available, there is little guidance regarding terrestrial impacts. Scoping of potential impacts of Cu-Ni exploration and mining in sulfide ores are presented for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), Minnesota USA, an area of mostly boreal forest on thin soils and granitic bedrock. Although the primary footprint of the proposed mines would be outside the BWCAW, displacement and fragmentation of forest ecosystems would cause spatial propagation of effects into a secondary footprint within the wilderness. Potential negative impacts include disruption of population dynamics for wildlife species with migration routes, or metapopulations of plant species that span the wilderness boundary, and establishment of invasive species outside the wilderness that could invade the wilderness. Due to linkages between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, acid mine drainage can impact lowland forests, which are highly dependent on chemistry of water flowing through them. The expected extremes in precipitation and temperature due to warming climate can also interact with mining impacts to reduce the resilience of forests to disturbance caused by mining.

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The ecological impact assessment of a proposed road development (the Slovak approach)

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Landscape fragmentation in Mediterranean Europe: A comparative approach

Landscape fragmentation in Mediterranean Europe: A comparative approach

Evaluation of the Impact on the Environment at Building and Reconstruction of Motorways Using the System Analysis Method

Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts of Sulfide Mining: Scope of Issues for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota, USA

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