Roads to ruin: can we build roads that benefit people while not destroying nature?
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCUCampbell, Mason;Alamgir, Mohammed;Laurance, William
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[Extract] We are living in the most aggressive era of road building in human history. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2050 we will have another 25 million kilometers of paved roads on Earth - enough to encircle the globe more than 600 times. Nine-tenth of these roads will be built in developing nations, mostly in the tropics and subtropics, which sustain the planet's most biologically rich and environmentally important ecosystems.
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