A global strategy for road building
By W. Laurance, G. Clements, Sean Sloan, C. O’Connell, N. Mueller, M. Goosem, O. Venter, David P. Edwards, B. Phalan, A. Balmford and 2 more. Nature, 2014
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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials
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- Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure (2018, background): “Various factors may promote road expansion, including pursuits for natural resources (timber, ores) and further agricultural development [37, 58] as well as policies to stimulate economic development [1, 4, 59].”
- Effects of habitat quality and access management on the density of a recovering grizzly bear population (2018, background): “Biodiversity loss and species extinctions are occurring through generally small, but successive disturbances (Laurance et al., 2014).”
- Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals (2020, background): “An additional 25 million km of paved roads are expected to be constructed worldwide by 2050 (Laurance et al. 2014).”
- Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries (2015, background): “…investments are planned for many tropical regions and will soon open most of the world’s remaining remote and pristine forests to commercial interests seeking land for estate crops, including industrial forest plantations (Weng et al., 2013; Edwards et al., 2014; Laurance et al., 2014a).”
- Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “Animal roadkill in particular is projected to only increase with the planned installation of 25 million km of new roads by 2050, mostly in areas rich in biodiversity, such as developing countries (Laurance et al. 2014).”
- The wildlife snaring crisis: an insidious and pervasive threat to biodiversity in Southeast Asia (2018, background): “An expanding road network throughout Southeast Asia, including infrastructure associated with hydropower and mining operations, means few areas of forest are[ 1 day walk from vehicle access (Laurance et al. 2014; Hughes 2017b).”
- The value of monitoring wildlife roadkill (2020, neutral): “It is expected that at least 25 million kilometres of new roads will be built globally by 2050, a 60% increase in road lengths since 2010 (Laurance et al. 2014), so wildlife-vehicle collisions are expected to increase with time (mammal-vehicle collisions have already been shown to have increased…”
- Rethinking Agricultural Trade Relationships in an Era of Globalization (2015, background): “How agricultural productivities and transport infrastructure evolve this century could affect the number of countries in this category (Hertel et al. 2014, Laurance et al. 2014), particularly in nations that already have relatively high cropland endowments (figure 5b).”
- Increasing human dominance of tropical forests (2015, background): “By 2050 >25 million km of roads are predicted to be built across the tropics (70), driving further forest degradation from fragmentation and encroachment by fire and hunters.”
- Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases (2017, background): “Further honing the EID risk index within regions and countries might also inform the planning of large land-use change programs such as logging and mining concessions, dam-building, and road development 33 .”