The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Davenport, John (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Davenport, Julia L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Environmental Pollution, 10
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecology.; Applied ecology.; Environmental management.; Life Sciences.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Management.; Applied Ecology.

Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. Transport has considerable ecological effects, many of them detrimental to environmental sustainability. This volume brings toget...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Ecological effects of aviation
• The local costs to ecological services associated with high seas global transport
• Shipwrecked – Shipping impacts on the biota of the Mediterranean Sea
• Snakes and ladders: Navigable waterways as invasion corridors
• The transport and the spread of living aquatic species
• Small craft and the spread of exotic species
• The environmental impacts of private car transport on the sustainability of Irish settlements
• Mortality in wildlife due to transportation
• Habitat fragmentation due to transport infrastructure : Practical considerations
• Restoring habitat connectivity across transport corridors: identifying high-priority locations for de-fragmentation with the use of an expert-based model
• Habitat and corridor function of rights-of-way
• Impact of road traffic on breeding bird populations
• Towards the sustainable development of modern road ecosystems
• Environmental impacts of transport, related to tourism and leisure activities
• Contaminants and pollutants.