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29 Aug 09
Roads are ruining the rainforests - opinion - 30 August 2009 - New Scientist
There's only one sure way to save vanishing tropical forests – stop slicing into them with highways of destruction, says biologist William Laurance
13 Jun 08
The Global Food Crisis: Will Investments in Agricultural Technology be enough? | End Poverty in South Asia
Interesting post on accessibility and the global food crisis....
09 Oct 07
South American development plan could destroy the Amazon
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A plan to link South America's economies through a series of infrastructure projects, could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest, warns a study by conservationists.
ARGENTINA - DIRECCION NACIONAL DE VIALIDAD
The Argentine Transportation agency
INVIAS - Colombia
The web site of the Colombian transportation ministry
06 May 07
Map charts where roads don't go - Road map points the way to untouched wilderness.
interesting metric.....
07 Oct 05
The Future of the Brazilian Amazon -- Laurance et al. 291 (5503): 438 -- Science
This is Laurence et al's paper arguuing that roads are the key threat to the Amazon
Amazonian Deforestation Models -- Câmara et al. 307 (5712): 1043c -- Science
this is a letter debating Laurence contention that roads are the chief culprit in Amazonian deforestation
14 Mar 05
Identifying Areas for Field Conservation of Forages in Latin American Disturbed Environments
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