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The promise and perils of roads

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A global map of the potential economic benefits of roads together with the environmental damage they can inflict provides a planning tool for sustainable development. See Letter p.229

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Figure 1: Economics versus environment.

Stephen G. Perz

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  1. Stephen G. Perz is in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.,

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Perz, S. The promise and perils of roads. Nature 513, 178–179 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13744

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