Unveiling patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping the mass of US built structures

Abstract Built structures increasingly dominate the Earth’s landscapes; their surging mass is currently overtaking global biomass. We here assess built structures in the conterminous US by quantifying the mass of 14 stock-building materials in eight building types and nine types of mobility infrastr...

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Main Authors: David Frantz, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, André Baumgart, Doris Virág, Sam Cooper, Camila Gómez-Medina, Fabian Lehmann, Thomas Udelhoven, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert, Helmut Haberl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43755-5