scholarly journals The process of Environmental Impact Assessment in the V4 countries in the field of road construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Slávka Gałaś ◽  
Andrzej Gałaś
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
The Road ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
Road System

The goal of the paper is to discuss the process of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the Visegrad Group (V4) member countries in the field of road construction. Development of the road system in V4 countries was analysed in the first part of the paper and then criteria of the screening stage of the EIA resulting from the division of projects due to their environmental impact were estimated. The second part presents results of the survey carried out in V4 countries among people involved in EIA. Responses given by people who declared their activity in the field of transport were used in the paper. Differences in EIA procedures in road investments in particular V4 countries have been pointed out. 

scholarly journals Stakeholders in the EIA Process: What is Important for them? The Case of Road Construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Renata Dagiliute ◽  
Gintare Juozapaitiene
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Governmental Institutions

Abstract - Public participation is one of the conditions for an effective environmental impact assessment. Quite often public participation is limited to the general public but various organizations, governmental and non-governmental institutions, business enterprises are left aside. The paper analyses the attitudes of different enterprises/organizations with focus on a road construction (Siaurine Street) case in Vilnius, Lithuania in regard to the environmental impact assessment process. The survey indicated that only a very small part of respondents from different enterprises and organizations has been approached in particular environmental impact assessment process, although the construction project was relevant for nearly half of all surveyed enterprises. Companies, located in the territory of the planned Siaurine Street, highlighted that the major significant components of environmental aspects are noise and air pollution, between socio-economic environment - suitable infrastructure, human well-being and business and job opportunities. The type of company’s activity, income, number of employees and their distance to the Siaurine Street were the main factors determining respondent choices.

Environmental Impact Assessment in the Visegrad Group countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slávka Gałaś ◽  
Andrzej Gałaś ◽  
Martina Zeleňáková ◽  
Lenka Zvijáková ◽  
Jitka Fialová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Visegrad Group

scholarly journals Application of Habitat Evaluation Procedure with Quantifying the Eco-Corridor in the Process of Environmental Impact Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Choi ◽  
Sangdon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Habitat Evaluation

In contrast to other fields, environmental protection (e.g., habitat protection) often fails to include quantitative evaluation as part of the existing environmental impact assessment (EIA) process, and therefore the EIA is often a poor forecasting tool, which makes selecting a reasonable plan of action difficult. In this study, we used the Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) to quantify the long-term effects of a road construction project on an ecosystem. The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) was selected as the species of study since it uses an optimum habitat; water deer habitat data were collected on vegetation cover, stream water density, geographic contour, land use class, and road networks. The Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) and Cumulative Habitat Unit (CHU) values for the water deer were estimated to investigate the major land cover classes, the national river systems, and vegetation cover. Results showed that the environmental impact in the road construction project area would result in a net ecological loss value of 1211 without installation of an eco-corridor, which reduced to 662 with an eco-corridor, providing a 55% increase in the net value after 50 years of the mitigation plan. Comparing the 13 proposed ecological mitigation corridors, the corridor that would result in the highest net increase (with an increase of 69.5), was corridor #4, which was regarded as the most appropriate corridor to properly connect water deer habitat. In sum, the study derived the net increase in quantitative values corresponding with different mitigation methods over time for a road construction project; this procedure can be effectively utilized in the future to select the location of ecological corridors while considering the costs of constructing them.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DE DUPLICAÇÃO DO TRECHO RODOVIÁRIO DA BR-101/RJ

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (208) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Camila Nascimento Mello
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Water Runoff ◽  
The Road ◽  
Car Exhaust ◽  
Road Projects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Road System

Brazil is in a situation of marked degradation in the road system, both in the sense of lacking new road projects and needing repairs to its current infrastructure. It is known that with the demographic increase over the years several positive and negative environmental impacts were caused and that the highways are works that generate great environmental impact. An environmental impact is defined as any change caused to the environment by humans, in turn the negative leads to an ecological imbalance, causing serious damage to the environment. In addition to the great polluting effects of the gases released by car exhaust, there is also the impact of road construction, which implies the withdrawal and transfer of huge amounts of land, deforestation, changes in the form of water runoff, silting of rivers and associated urban expansion. The purpose of this article is to analyze the fundamentals that support the concept, understand the challenges posed and the level of adequacy that reveal the need for legitimacy of the article.

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Khrutba ◽  
Yevheniia Anpilova ◽  
Vitalina Lukianova ◽  
Iryna Kotsiuba ◽  
Lesia Kriukovska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
The Impact

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.

BIODIVERSITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN ROAD DEVELOPMENT IN LITHUANIA

Transport ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Vaiškūnaitė ◽  
Pranas Mierauskas ◽  
Valdas Špakauskas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Road Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Methodological Guidelines

Roads affect wildlife in different ways. Road construction increases fragmentation of habitats, influences landscape pattern and alters the physical environment. Roads act as barriers to animal movements, increase their mortality rates and cause other negative impacts on biodiversity. The current paper overviews the assessment of road impacts in Lithuania, reviews approaches applied to evaluation of road development impacts as well as analyses application of Lithuanian legal documents in the field. In Lithuania, assessment of possible effects inflicted by envisaged road construction is determined by the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment of Planned Economic Activities and orders of the Ministry of Environment. Although the legislation covers some aspects of biodiversity, little attention is given to the assessment of the impact on biodiversity; meanwhile the impact assessment of proposed economic activities on Natura 2000 sites is clarified more extensively. Lithuanian methodological guidelines on determination of environmental impact assessment procedures and principles for the road network do not comply with international requirements concerning the biodiversity impact assessment of roads. The practiced biodiversity impact assessment used for road development projects in Lithuania complies with minimum requirements used in developed countries. To fulfil international requirements on biodiversity conservation, it is necessary to amend the Lithuanian legislation on environmental impact assessment and issue guidelines on biodiversity protection in road development projects. The article proposes models for calculation of road pollution dispersion for evaluation of air quality next to the already existing and newly projected roads.

scholarly journals Road environmental impact assessment in the conceptual design stage - example of the Kragujevac - Mrčajevci motorway

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Sanja Fric ◽  
Vladan Ilić ◽  
Miloš Lukić ◽  
Dejan Gavran ◽  
Filip Trpčevski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Impact Assessment Methodology ◽  
State Of The Environment

The construction of new motorway routes leaves lasting consequences on the nature and the living world along the corridor through which the adopted motorway alignment extends. Therefore, it is necessary that in the initial stage of the project (Conceptual design) the analysis of all potential impacts of the motorway on the environment be done very rigorously. The subject of this paper is the road environmental impact assessment methodology implemented in conceptual design of Kragujevac - Mrčajevci motorway. Within the motorway environmental assessment for different variants of motorway corridor, traffic noise, air pollution, rainwater and groundwater pollution, soil pollution, climate change, occupation of surfaces for expropriation and other relevant impacts were investigated. In the paper the methodology used to assess the initial ("zero") state of the environment in the studied area was briefly described. In addition, the methodology based on which the project alternatives were compared regarding environmental requirements was also presented, and finally, what was the conclusion of such a comparison.

Evaluation of the steel slag incorporation as coarse aggregate for road construction: technical requirements and environmental impact assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor J. Ferreira ◽  
Aitana Sáez-De-Guinoa Vilaplana ◽  
Tatiana García-Armingol ◽  
Alfonso Aranda-Usón ◽  
Cristina Lausín-González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Coarse Aggregate ◽  
Steel Slag ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Technical Requirements

scholarly journals The application of checklists in environmental studies in the field of road construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-304
Author(s):  
Slávka Gałaś ◽  
Janusz Bohatkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Environmental Studies

Checklists are one of the simplest but very effective methods used in the phase of planning, preparation and verification of activities, among others in the process of environmental impact assessment. These checklists can be used as a useful tool in every phase of the evaluation process to check the quality of the data used and the work performed and to verify the completeness of the assessments. The aim of the article is to show the applicability of checklists in environmental studies in the field of road construction on the domestic examples and from abroad.

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