CONSERVATION OF LAND AND BIODIVERSITY FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX ROAD PROJECTS: SOME CASE STUDIESNagarjuna PilakaAbstract Roads are indispensable for the socio-economic development of any region. Roads way projects face various issues such as Land, Environment, Technology and Bio diversity among others. Environment is the surroundings of our living thing. It consists of living things and non-living things. It also includes the Sun and weather of the place you live in, as we depend on our environment for all our needs as it provides us with food, water, air, materials to construct houses and all the useful things we use in our daily life. Humans have found many new ways to keep themselves comfortable, from a wide range of things like good houses to live in, good roads, cars and buses to travel and many more things for the increasing population. However in making our lives comfortable we have damaged our environment and biodiversity in many ways. We have affected forest to build cities and forms, and keep cutting down trees to make houses and roads, thereby destroying animal habitats. The study is quite a comprehensive with a variety of examples and cases, and focused primarily on some key environmental and bio-diversity factors associated with development of roadways, various laws and mitigation measures in order to safeguard the environment in the process of inevitable man made development. |