Zoning Plan For Earth: Optimizing Where Roads Should And Should Not Go

Sunday, August 31, 2014 - 11:40 in Mathematics & Economics

More than 15 million miles of new roads will be built worldwide by 2050, pushing back the frontiers of progress. Of course, progress may mean a loss of wilderness if it is not managed carefully, and authors have created a ‘global roadmap’ for prioritizing road building across the planet, to try to balance the competing demands of development and environmental protection. read more

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