Add to ORKG[Extract] Located in the wrong places, roads can open a Pandora's Box of problems, says William F. Laurance In a recent Opinion in National Geographic News ("Want to make a dent in world hunger? Build better roads", 14 October 2014), U.S. Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn makes a compelling case that roads can have major benefits for rural people—improving access to modern farming technologies, education, and healthcare, and even limiting the influence of extremist groups that prey on isolated communities. However, Ambassador Quinn tells only half of the story. Yes, many roads or road improvements can yield major economic and social benefits. But other roads become environmental disasters—opening a Pandora's Box of problems such as illegal ...
It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—enough to e...
Roads form vast and pervasive networks across the earth, with diverse and often profound negative en...
[Extract] We are living in the most explosive era of infrastructure expansion in human history (1, 2...
[Extract] Located in the wrong places, roads can open a Pandora's Box of problems, says William F. L...
Roads greatly influence the footprint of human activity, but they are often constructed with little ...
[Extract] "The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads." These might soun...
[Extract] When thinking of threats to the environment roads are probably not at the top of many peop...
[Extract] "The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads." These might soun...
Here I evaluate the impacts of roads from a broad environmental standpoint. At the outset, I describ...
[Extract] We are living in the most aggressive era of road building in human history. The Internatio...
The number and extent of roads will expand dramatically this century 1. Globally, at least 25 millio...
A poorly placed or unsuitably designed road can result in landslides, flooding, gullies, stream dama...
[Extract] CAIRNS, Australia — If you want to see how differently economists and ecologists view the ...
[Extract] Examining the economic benefits and environmental costs of roads in the Asia-Pacific
[Extract] In the past decade, two-thirds of the world's forest elephants – which live only in Africa...
It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—enough to e...
Roads form vast and pervasive networks across the earth, with diverse and often profound negative en...
[Extract] We are living in the most explosive era of infrastructure expansion in human history (1, 2...
[Extract] Located in the wrong places, roads can open a Pandora's Box of problems, says William F. L...
Roads greatly influence the footprint of human activity, but they are often constructed with little ...
[Extract] "The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads." These might soun...
[Extract] When thinking of threats to the environment roads are probably not at the top of many peop...
[Extract] "The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads." These might soun...
Here I evaluate the impacts of roads from a broad environmental standpoint. At the outset, I describ...
[Extract] We are living in the most aggressive era of road building in human history. The Internatio...
The number and extent of roads will expand dramatically this century 1. Globally, at least 25 millio...
A poorly placed or unsuitably designed road can result in landslides, flooding, gullies, stream dama...
[Extract] CAIRNS, Australia — If you want to see how differently economists and ecologists view the ...
[Extract] Examining the economic benefits and environmental costs of roads in the Asia-Pacific
[Extract] In the past decade, two-thirds of the world's forest elephants – which live only in Africa...
It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—enough to e...
Roads form vast and pervasive networks across the earth, with diverse and often profound negative en...
[Extract] We are living in the most explosive era of infrastructure expansion in human history (1, 2...