Research data supporting “Getting road expansion on the right track: a framework for smart infrastructure planning in the Mekong”
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Balmford, Andrew
Chen, Huafang
Phalan, Ben https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7876-7226
Wang, Mingcheng
O’Connell, Christine
Description
Spatial data underlying the figures in Balmford et al. "Getting road expansion on the right track: a framework for smart infrastructure planning in the Mekong", for use in a Geographic Information System All raster and shapefile data have been derived from other datasets, and show metrics of environmental cost and food production benefit in the Mekong Basin, as defined by the Asian Development Bank as Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Yunnan Province in China. Full details are given in the figure captions and text of the associated paper.
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Keywords
geographic information systems, GIS, raster, shapefile, spatial data, Mekong Basin, Asia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Yunnan, China, roads, infrastructure, agriculture, biodiversity conservation, forest cover, climate regulation
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University of Cambridge
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Green Rubber Project (No. #13.1432.7-001.00) with financial support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany.