ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how environmental management systems (EMSs) complying with the requirements of ISO 14001, may help a particular group of stakeholders deal with biodiversity issues on road corridors in a similar if not co-ordinated way. These stake-holders are the larger organisations involved with roads and, collectively, they influence or actually carry out much of the work that impacts biodiversity. Stakeholders may agree to protect biodiversity because they can achieve some other preexisting objective by doing so, such as secure political power, make money, ensure future work or improve their public image. The National Protocol System (NPS) is a framework to establish co-operation between all stakeholders to maintain biodiversity on road reserves. Once compatible systems are operating, the positive grass-roots feedback from the thousands of individual stakeholders may reinforce the advantages of developing compatible systems and co-operation, especially as there is no competitive advantage for any of the stakeholders involved in maintaining biodiversity.
