Environmental Issues
Until the second half of the 20th century, the prime purpose of linking people to places has also been the prime criterion for judging a network’s performance. New criteria surfaced when questions about the impact of development on the environment were raised. In that new context, a network’s land consumption; its adaptability to the land’s natural features; the degree of water impermeability it introduces; whether it lengthens trips and how it affects the production of greenhouse gases constitute part of a new set of criteria.
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