A global strategy for road building

William F. Laurance (), Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sean Sloan, Christine S. O’Connell, Nathan D. Mueller, Miriam Goosem, Oscar Venter, David P. Edwards, Ben Phalan, Andrew Balmford, Rodney Van Der Ree and Irene Burgues Arrea
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William F. Laurance: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Gopalasamy Reuben Clements: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Sean Sloan: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Christine S. O’Connell: Institute on the Environment, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Nathan D. Mueller: Center for the Environment, Harvard University
Miriam Goosem: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Oscar Venter: Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
David P. Edwards: University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Ben Phalan: University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
Andrew Balmford: University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
Rodney Van Der Ree: Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, and School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Irene Burgues Arrea: Conservation Strategy Fund, 663-2300 Curridabat, San José, Costa Rica

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7517, 229-232

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.

Date: 2014
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