Title
A global strategy for road building
Author(s)
Laurance, William F.;Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben;Sloan, Sean;O???Connell, Christine S.;Mueller, Nathan D.;Goosem, Miriam;Venter, Oscar;Edwards, David P.;Phalan, Ben;Balmford, Andrew;Van Der Ree, Rodney;Arrea, Irene Burgues
Published
2014
Publisher
Nature
Abstract
A global zoning scheme is proposed to limit the environmental costs of road building while maximizing its benefits for human development, by discriminating among areas where road building would have high environmental costs but relatively low agricultural advantage, areas where strategic road improvements could promote agricultural production with relatively modest environmental costs, and ???conflict areas??? where road building may have large agricultural benefits but also high environmental costs.
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