Wildlife collisions with aircraft: A missing component of land-use planning for airports

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Blackwell, Bradley F ^a   DeVault, Travis L ^a   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^b   Dolbeer, Richard A ^c  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport planning; Aviation hazard; Bird strike; Land use; Risk; Wildlife strike

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRPORTS; ANIMALS; AVIATION; CROPS; ECONOMICS; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS;

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AVIATION HAZARDS; BIRD STRIKE; LAND USE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; STORM WATER RUNOFF; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS; WILDLIFE STRIKE;

LAND USE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION; BIRD; DATA SET; LAND USE PLANNING; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES;

EID: 69949152632     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.07.005     Document Type: Review

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