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Environment Impact Assessment of Highway Expansion – A Review

Kashish Walia 1 , RK Aggarwal 1 * and SK Bhardwaj 1

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.04

Highway expansion improves the quality of existing roads and enhances the connectivity between prime economic centres. The escalating traffic and need to bolster the economic capability of the area leads to the expansion of highways. Moreover, the accession activity disturbs the ecosystem and induces myriad changes in the surrounding panorama. Also, it affects both abiotic and biotic components, directly and indirectly. Thus, to know and predict the impact on the environment and socio-economic conditions of the residents, Environment Impact Assessment of National Highways is imperative. Therefore, this paper reviews the influence of highway expansion on air, water and soil quality and the socio-economic conditions and health of the natives.

EIA; Highway expansion; Environment degradation; Ecosystem fragmentation

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Walia K, Aggarwal R. K, Bhardwaj S. K. Environment Impact Assessment of Highway Expansion – A Review. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.04

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Walia K, Aggarwal R. K, Bhardwaj S. K. Environment Impact Assessment of Highway Expansion – A Review. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=1056

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