[Recent publication] A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009...Link

[07 Mar., 2013] Urbanization and the Environment class (EVST 346) heads to China and India...Link

[22 Feb., 2013] Interview with WGBH News -- The Century of Urbanization...Link

[Recent publication] Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation...Link

[Recent publication] The impact of urbanization on water vulnerability: a coupled human-environment system approach for Chennai, India...Link

[Recent publication] The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity...Link

[Recent publication] Planetary stewardship in an urbanising world: beyond city limits...Link

[Recent publication] Capturing multiscalar feedbacks in urban land change: a coupled systems dynamics spatial logistic approach...Link

[Recent publication] Multi-level modeling of urban expansion and cultivated land conversion for urban hotspot counties in China...Link

[Recent publication] Planetary stewardship in an urbanising world: beyond city limits...Link

[18 Sep., 2012] Nature -- How future urban sprawl maps out...Link

[18 Sep., 2012] Time Science & Space -- Urban Planet: How Growing Cities Will Wreck the Environment Unless We Build Them Right...Link

[17 Sep., 2012] Live Science -- Urban land to triple by 2030...Link

[Recent publication] Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools...Link

[27 Jul., 2012] CQ Researcher -- Karen on smart cities...Link

[05 Oct., 2011] International Association for Urban Climate newsletter available or sign up for new issue notifications here.

[28 Sep., 2011] Karen's Interview with China Radio International 中国国际广播电台... more

[06 Sep., 2011] YaleDailyNews.com -- City growth worldwide intensifies sprawl concerns... more

[01 Sep., 2011] NewSecurityBeat -- Karen Seto on the Environmental Impact of Expanding Cities [Part One]... more

[02 Sep., 2011] NewSecurityBeat -- Karen Seto on the Environmental Impact of Expanding Cities [Part Two]... more

[22 Aug., 2011] NY Times Green -- What Drives Cities’ Runaway Growth? ... more

[20 Aug., 2011] ScienceDaily.com -- Growth of Cities Endangers Global Environment ... more

[Recent publication] Seto, K.C., Fragkias, M., Güneralp, B., & Reilly, M.K. 2011. A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion. PLoS ONE, 6, e23777

[Recent publication] Zhang, Q., & Seto, K. C. 2011. Mapping urbanization dynamics at regional and global scales using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS nighttime light data. Remote Sensing of Environment,115(9): 2320-2329.

Reductions in carbon dioxide emissions due to increasing building-level energy efficiency are overshadowed by the scale of urban expansion in South China.

[Recent publication] Güneralp, B., & Seto, K.C. 2012. Can gains in efficiency offset the resource demands and CO2 emissions from constructing and operating the built environment? Applied Geography, 32, 40-50

Karen Seto selected as Coordinating Lead Author for Working Group III of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report.

Karen Seto discusses the brand new cities of the 21st century with Forbes magazine.

Aquaculture replaces agricultural plots near Chinese cities:

[Recent publication] Seto, K. C., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Roberto, and Fragkias, Michail 2010. The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment , Annual Review of Environment and Resources 35: 167-194.

[Recent publication] Karen C Seto, David Satterthwaite, 2010. Interactions between urbanization and global environmental change, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 2, Issue 3, August 2010, Pages 127-128.

[29 Jan 2010] Read Karen's recent interview with FernTV

[20 Oct 2009] Watch the FES Video: Cities Changing Their Climate