A growing and more affluent human population is expected to increase the demand for resources and to accelerate habitat modification, but by how much and where remains unknown. Here this paper projects and aggregates global spatial patterns of expected urban and agricultural expansion, conventional and unconventional oil and gas, coal, solar, wind, biofuels and mining development.
A World at Risk: Aggregating Development Trends to Forecast Global Habitat Conversion

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