Guidelines for ecological compensation associated with highways

Biological Conservation

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-51

  Cuperus, Ruud ^a   Canters, Kees J ^b   Udo De Haes, Helias A ^b   Friedman, Debra S ^c  

^a Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c #210 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Instruments; Legislation; Planning; Policy; Realization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032891771     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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