Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005) / Chapter Skim
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8 Conclusions and Recommendations
8 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 220-225
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In part, this mismatch results because there are few legal incentives or disincentives to consider environmental effects beyond political jurisdictions, and thus decision making remains primarily local. The ecological effects of roads are typically much larger than the road itself, and they often extend beyond regional planning domains.
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Recommendation: More opportunities should be created to integrate research on road ecology into long-term ecological studies by using long-term ecological research sites and considering the need for new ones. Recommendation: Ecological assessments for transportation projects should be conducted at different time scales to address impacts on key ecological system processes and structures.
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A national effort is needed to develop standards for data collection. A set of rapid screening and assessment methods for environmental impacts of transportation and a national ecological database based on the geographic information system (GIS)
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Metropolitan planning organizations and state departments of transportation should conduct first-level screenings for potential environmental effects before the development of a transportation improvement plan. Transportation planners should consider resource-management plans and other agencies' (such as the U.S.
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Recommendation: Studies on ecological effects of roads should be made more accessible through scientific abstracting services or through publication in peer-reviewed venues. The Federal Highway Administration, in partnership with state and federal resourcemanagement agencies, should develop environmental information and decision-support systems to make ecological information available in searchable databases.
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Transportation planners and natural-resource planners should collaborate to promote integrated planning at comparable scope and scale so that the efforts can support mutual objectives. This collaboration should include federal, state, and county resource-management agencies; nongovernmental organizations; and organizations and firms involved in road construction.
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