Highway Construction and Ecological Environment Protection: Corn Relationship and Key Principle

Abstract:

The fast development of highway construction makes its negative effects on the natural ecological environment more and more prominent, which makes the designer to have to think in earnest about how to deal with the relationship between highway construction and ecological environmental protection and how to put the concept of harmonious relationship between human and nature, subsistence and development, and alteration and respect of nature into highway design. Based on the analysis in ecology and ecosystem of highway, highway ecological esthetics and ecological ethic are explained in the paper. The core of the relationship between highway construction and ecological environment protection is studied from the three aspects of avoidance and compensation, destruction and recovery, and protection and utilization. The concept and characteristics of ecological highway are defined. And ecological highway design principle and requirement are also explored to confirm the key content of ecological environment protection in highway construction, which make the ecological ideas apply to the entire life circle of highway construction including plan, design, construction and operation to achieve highway sustainable development.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 831)
• Pages: 287-292
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.831.287
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Xiao Chun Qin*, Yi Shen, Qiang Meng, Dan Wang
• Keywords: Ecological Environment Protection, Ecological Highway, Highway Construction, Relationship

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