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

This book, as the subtitle suggests, touches on a topic that concerns all of us: roads and paths. We are all connected beings, but this book is targeted to those who better want to understand how the design and very existence of roads and paths is linked to how our ecologies work, have developed, and will evolve. There are over 40 million miles of road across the planet (mind you the circumference of the planet is just shy of 25,000 miles), of which all are affected despite most of them serving human society and its conveniences. This book touches on the multitudes of ways that humans are affected (cars being a large killer of animals, notably humans), the effects of cars and road maintenance leading to contamination and pollution of entire ecosystems, food chains disrupted, noise pollution, to touch the tip of the iceberg.