Environmental and social assessment of road reconstruction projects

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2015.47887

Keywords:

international bank, road/highway, environment, environmental impact, social impact, emissions of harmful substances

Abstract

We have analysed the legislative framework of Ukraine on regulating impacts of the roads construction and reconstruction projects upon the environment and human health––and revealed its discrepancy with international requirements.

Ukraine’s road networks can be saved by credit funds of international financial organizations, which requires an environmental and social assessment of the projects. The paper reveals the peculiarities and a mechanism for determining the environmental impact of the range of construction and reconstruction of roads according to modern technological processes and international requirements.

We have made an ecological and social assessment of the project of reconstructing highway M-03 Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhanskyiat the road segment from Boryspil to Lubny and identified direct and indirect impacts of the project on people, flora, fauna, soil, water, air, climate, landscape, material assets and cultural heritage as well as on the interaction between these elements.As a result, we have determined that the project improvesthe conveyance and the engineering protection of the ecosystem as well as increases the bandwidth and reduces the road congestion, which improvesthe environmental and social situation in the area.

The current methods of assessing the environmental and social impacts of the project by the requirements of the IBRD can be effectively applied to other projects of reconstruction and improvement of roads.

Author Biographies

Вікторія Олександрівна Хрутьба, National Transport University, 1 Suvorova str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 01010

Doctor in Technical Science, professor

Department of Ecology and Safety of Vital Functions

Ганна Олександрівна Вайганг, National Transport University, 1 Suvorova str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 01010

PhD, associate professor

Department of Ecology and Safety of Vital Functions

Вадим Ігорович Зюзюн, National Transport University, 1 Suvorova str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 01010

Assistant

Department of Ecology and Safety of Vital Functions, 

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2015-08-19

How to Cite

Хрутьба, В. О., Вайганг, Г. О., & Зюзюн, В. І. (2015). Environmental and social assessment of road reconstruction projects. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(10(76), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2015.47887

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Vol. 4 No. 10(76) (2015): Ecology. Technology and Equipment of Food Production

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Ecology

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