European Handbook

Wildlife and Traffic: A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions is a solution-orientated handbook, based upon the accumulated knowledge of a broad range of experts from participating countries and from numerous international contacts. 

It gives practical guidance for those involved in the different phases of the planning, construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. The main aim of this handbook is to assist planners and engineers to minimise ecological barriers and fragmentation effects of transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways and waterways. 

The handbook takes the reader chapter-by-chapter through all the different phases, from the first steps of strategic planning, through the integration of roads in the landscape, the use of mitigation measures such as overand underpasses for different animals, the lesser known field of compensatory measures, and finally to consider the monitoring and evaluation of the chosen solutions.

This European Handbook on Habitat Fragmentation due to Linear Transportation Infrastructure contains:

• methodology/indicators to define and quantify ‘fragmentation’
• priorities for tackling environmental bottlenecks
• best practice in mitigation/compensation measures for existing and planned infrastructure
• technical description/maintenance
• methods to evaluate/monitor the effectiveness of measures
• recommendations on methodological aspects of a monetary evaluation of external effects
• habitat fragmentation in Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Impact Assessment
• recommendations for planners to help them with planning procedures.

EUROPEAN HANDBOOK (pdf)

Citation :
Iuell, B., Bekker, G.J., Cuperus, R., Dufek, J., Fry, G., Hicks, C., Hlavá c, V., Keller, V., B., Rosell, C., Sangwine, T., Tørsløv, N., Wandall, B. le Maire, (Eds.) 2003. COST 341 - Wildlife and Traffic: A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions.