The impact of urban development and human disturbance on the numbers of nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus on heathlands in Dorset, England

Scope for strategic ecological assessmen

Scope for strategic ecological assessment of trunk-road development in England with respect to potential impacts on lowland heathland, the Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) and the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)

✍ JR Treweek; P Hankard; DB Roy; H Arnold; S Thompson 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 553 KB

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has a potential role in sustainable development. However, its commonest application has been at the project level, where it fails to ensure adequate consideration of potentially serious trans-boundary, widespread, indirect, cumulative and synergistic ecological