Impact assessment of roads on landscape
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.1993.v45.i425-426.1182Abstract
Perhaps one of the most important ways in which public opinion knows the landscape is through roads. The 325,000 km of roads in Spain are of great importance since they are used by 16.5 million vehicles. It seems that this importance will continue to grow in the years to come. This process goes together with the increasing sensitivity of the population where environmental issues are concerned. For this reason we constantly face confrontations between the development and the nature preservation. We believe it possible to reduce these conflicts by identifying the most problematic areas and the possible solutions in the initial stages of planning and design. In the road - landscape relation the importance of landscape studies is obvious since one of the aspects the public opinion values most directly is the integration of the road in the landscape. The aim of this paper is precisely to identify the principal stages in the analysis of the landscape issue in road projects. This is not a thorough description but a comment of various steps to be taken in the estimation of the impact on landscape which can serve as the starting point to be developed further in different projects.
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