Crossings :How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

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Crossings

Crossings :How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

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Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. Creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; invasive plants hitch rides in tire treads; road salt contaminates lakes and rivers; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. Yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads, engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests, animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania’s car-orphaned wallabies and community organisers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities. Today, as our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially, the science of road ecology has become increasingly vital. Written with passion and curiosity, Crossings is a sweeping, spirited and timely investigation into how humans have altered the natural world—and how we can create a better future for all living beings.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781324086314
ISBN10 1324086319
Number Of Pages 384
Item Weight 298 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 211 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller WW Norton & Co
Format paperback
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"An eye-opening road trip that spans continents to show how paved roads, seen as markers of civilisation, disrupt the natural world... This is a rare, beautifully written book, which tells us hard truths about roads, cars and life on Earth, but still manages to make us feel positive about the road ahead." -- Vijaysree Venkatraman - New Scientist
"Wide-ranging and absorbing.… Brilliant." -- Bill McKibben
"Goldfarb is perceptive about how roads tangle animals together with humans…Crossings is well-paced and vivid, an engaging account." -- Timothy Farrington - Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating and compassionate…[Goldfarb] does an admirable job of detailing the ways that highways and freeways divide our cities along racial lines…It’s rare for a work so focused on wildlife conservation to also treat race." -- Emily Raboteau - The New York Times Book Review
"A powerhouse of a book, a comprehensive and engaging study of the many ways that roads damage natural habitats." -- David Gessner - The Washington Post

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Author's Bio

Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Whiting Foundation, he lives in Colorado.

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