Limiting Environmental Impacts While Optimizing Benefits of Rapid Road Expansion in the Asia-Pacific Region (Old ID 22967)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
We will assess the impacts of roads and other infrastructure on terrestrial ecosystems of the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on rapidly developing frontier areas in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Key goals will include devising land-use planning models to reduce environmental costs, maximise economic benefits, and predict the impacts of new roads and infrastructure on the environment. We will work actively with local partners and stakeholders, and engage in a variety of outreach and dissemination activities, to promote more sustainable infrastructure development in our environmentally critical study area.
Date
01 Oct 2016 - 31 Mar 2020
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Infrastructure;Deforestation;Roads;Asia-Pacific Region;Agriculture;Land-use Planning
Funding Body
Anonymous Donor
Amount
2728362
Project Team
N/A