DATA TYPE AND SCALE EFFECTS ON AN EIA PROCESS — CONTEXT VERSUS OBJECT APPROACH: A CASE STUDY OF THE EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF THE A2 ROAD IN SOUTHERN PORTUGAL ON THE IBERIAN LYNX

João Paulo Fernandes ()
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João Paulo Fernandes: Departamento de Planeamento Biofísico e Paisagísico, Colégio Luís António Verney, University of Évora, 7001 Évora Codex, Portugal

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 2000, vol. 02, issue 01, 19-41

Abstract: The use of two scales within an environmental impact assessment study of the impacts on the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinaLinnaeus) is described. The differences in information content and assessment ability are evaluated. One scale is based on the register of observations along the study corridor of the highway (the "object" approach), and the second on a broad regional landscape ecological analysis assessing the entire Lynx population and the viability for survival of the individual populations that are potentially affected by the highway (the "context" approach). Other data quality and type variations and its influence in the evaluation are also analysed.

Keywords: environmental data quality; scale effects in EIA; environmental impact assessment; Lynx pardinaL.; habitat assessment; functional assessment of landscapes; nature conservation; integrated landscape analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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