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  • HABITATS

  • HIGHWAYS

HUMANS

THE PROJECT

This project would run over three years, and is organized around three layers of work, and a fourth layer (sharing across the three study countries) which we propose to be developed as the project matures.

Layer One:  Designing, convening and facilitating group processes within and across government, civil society, science and industry, which will grow readiness and literacy

Layer Two: Technical interfacing to carry out research and mainstream technical findings from Coalition 3H members and others.

Layer Three: Developing and communicating appropriate local narratives to support and enrich local, national and regional understanding and discourse around the issues, deploying forms of media necessary to engage the range of audiences and actors.  Some areas of interest are:

  • engaging architects, engineers, builders and contractors;

  • enabling exploration of lower-impact alternatives where necessary; 

  • engaging in the “finance trail” and related policy; 

  • engaging the meta “what is development?” question; and

  • engaging the Twelfth Malaysia Plan (2021-25).

Layer Four: Trans-boundary sharing, co-learning and strategizing with Indonesian and Papua New Guinean counterparts to expand, contract, shape-shift and align advocacy processes between the local, national and regional. 

RELEVANT ARTICLES

Audio: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon

Mongabay writer John Cannon produced a series of six articles on the PBH based on his visit to Sabah and the LEAP-FS team and meeting with Baru Bian in Kuala Lumpur in July 2019. Article titles included ‘Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests’ and ‘The Pan Borneo Highway’ on a collision course with elephants’

Campbell, M.J., M. Alamgir, and W.F. Laurance. 2017. Roads to ruin: Can we build roads that benefit people while not destroying nature? Australasian Science 38(2): 40-41.

Campbell, M., Alamgir, M., and Laurance, W. 2017. Optimising future tropical roads; Examining the economic benefits and environmental costs of roads in the Asia-Pacific. Australian Wildlife 2: 26-29.

Campbell, M., M, Alamgir and W. Laurance. 2018. Optimizing roads to limit environmental damage and maximize societal development in the Asia-Pacific. HOPE (Householders' Options to Protect the Environment) eNews bulletin, March: 6. 

Alamgir et al. (2017) Economic, Socio-Political and Environmental Risks of Road Development in the Tropics. Current Biology 27: 1130–1140.

Alamgir et al. (2018) Road Risks & Environmental Impact Assessments in Malaysian Road Infrastructure Projects. The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, Jurutera 13-16.

Alternative Routes for a Proposed Nigerian Superhighway to Limit Damage to Rare Ecosystems and Wildlife

Mahmoud et al. (2017) Alternative Routes for a Proposed Nigerian Superhighway to Limit Damage to Rare Ecosystems and Wildlife. Tropical Conservation Science 10: 1-10. 

William F. Laurance & Irene Burgues Arrea. 27 October 2017. sciencemag.org vol 368 Issue 6362

Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers (ALERT) Newsletter 19/12/17: Is Our Planet Ready for 2 Billion Cars?
 

Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers (ALERT) Newsletter 23/03/18:  Can Conservation Corridors Save Nature? 

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