Karen Seto
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Geographer, urban and land change scientist and professor at Yale University
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- Bachelors Geography Dartmouth College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Ching-Yee Seto is a geographer, urbanisation and land change scientist, and Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanisation Science at Yale University. She is an expert on urbanisation and sustainability, and satellite remote sensing. She was the co-lead for the chapter on urban mitigation in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report and IPCC 5th Assessment Report. From 2014 to 2020, she was the co-editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Global Environmental Change. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences , the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Karen Seto's Published Works
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Published Works
- Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools (2012) (2753)
- Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data: When and How to Correct Atmospheric Effects? (2001) (1771)
- A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion (2011) (1667)
- Systems integration for global sustainability (2015) (868)
- Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands (2016) (664)
- Quantifying Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Land-use Change in Four Cities of China with Time Series Landscape Metrics (2005) (644)
- Urban land teleconnections and sustainability (2012) (624)
- Mapping urbanization dynamics at regional and global scales using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS nighttime light data (2011) (554)
- The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment (2010) (502)
- Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications (2016) (479)
- Monitoring land-use change in the Pearl River Delta using Landsat TM (2002) (479)
- Modeling the Drivers of Urban Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating Remote Sensing with Socioeconomic Data (2003) (454)
- Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning (2014) (452)
- Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities (2013) (425)
- Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge (2015) (339)
- Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research (2016) (309)
- Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit (2007) (293)
- The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity (2013) (292)
- The impact of urban expansion on agricultural land use intensity in China (2013) (288)
- Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems (2016) (268)
- Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050 (2017) (261)
- Global urban land-use trends and climate impacts (2009) (260)
- NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (2018) (244)
- Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation (2013) (244)
- The impact of urbanization on water vulnerability: A coupled human- environment system approach for Chennai, India (2013) (242)
- Building a global urban science (2018) (221)
- Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Areas (2013) (220)
- Carbon footprints of 13 000 cities (2018) (203)
- Exploring the dynamics of migration to mega-delta cities in Asia and Africa: Contemporary drivers and future scenarios (2011) (199)
- Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation (2016) (198)
- Multi-level modeling of urban expansion and cultivated land conversion for urban hotspot counties in China (2012) (193)
- Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation (2017) (190)
- Monitoring urbanization dynamics in India using DMSP/OLS night time lights and SPOT-VGT data (2013) (186)
- Sustainability in an urbanizing planet (2017) (179)
- Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing (2019) (177)
- Urbanization and agricultural land loss in India: comparing satellite estimates with census data. (2015) (168)
- Linking spatial patterns of bird and butterfly species richness with Landsat TM derived NDVI (2004) (164)
- Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity (2019) (164)
- Environmental impacts of urban growth from an integrated dynamic perspective: A case study of Shenzhen, South China (2008) (162)
- A Global Outlook on Urbanization (2013) (161)
- Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World: Beyond City Limits (2012) (156)
- Mangrove conversion and aquaculture development in Vietnam: A remote sensing-based approach for evaluating the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (2007) (156)
- Down to Earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene (2016) (155)
- Locking in positive climate responses in cities (2018) (152)
- Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements (2013) (148)
- Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis (2020) (148)
- Urban Growth in Chengdu, Western China: Application of Remote Sensing to Assess Planning and Policy Outcomes (2005) (146)
- Landsat reveals China's farmland reserves, but they're vanishing fast (2000) (135)
- Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050 (2019) (132)
- Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere (2021) (130)
- Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era (2014) (129)
- A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013) (127)
- Climate change: Track urban emissions on a human scale (2015) (126)
- It's Time for an Urbanization Science (2013) (123)
- A Robust Method to Generate a Consistent Time Series From DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data (2016) (121)
- Change detection, accuracy, and bias in a sequential analysis of Landsat imagery in the Pearl River Delta, China: econometric techniques (2001) (114)
- Can Night-Time Light Data Identify Typologies of Urbanization? A Global Assessment of Successes and Failures (2013) (108)
- Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects (2015) (101)
- Comparing ARTMAP Neural Network with the Maximum-Likelihood Classifier for Detecting Urban Change (2003) (97)
- Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing (2014) (97)
- Spatializing 6,000 years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000 (2016) (96)
- Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (2019) (94)
- Evolving rank-size distributions of intra-metropolitan urban clusters in South China (2009) (85)
- Six fundamental aspects for conceptualizing multidimensional urban form: A spatial mapping perspective (2018) (82)
- Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands (2013) (79)
- A systematic review and assessment of algorithms to detect, characterize, and monitor urban land change (2020) (77)
- From Bangalore to the Bay Area: Comparing transportation and activity accessibility as drivers of urban growth (2009) (76)
- Interactions between urbanization and global environmental change (2010) (75)
- Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+ (2019) (74)
- Stewardship of the biosphere in the urban era (2013) (72)
- Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change (2012) (70)
- ART-MMAP: a neural network approach to subpixel classification (2004) (69)
- A Novel Method for Mapping Land Cover Changes: Incorporating Time and Space With Geostatistics (2006) (66)
- Chapter 12 - Human settlements, infrastructure and spatial planning (2014) (65)
- A conceptual framework for an urban areas typology to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation (2015) (64)
- A Synthesis of Global Urbanization Projections (2013) (63)
- Comparative evaluation of relative calibration methods for DMSP/OLS nighttime lights (2017) (61)
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022) (59)
- The importance of land governance for biodiversity conservation in an era of global urban expansion (2018) (57)
- Characterizing urban infrastructural transitions for the Sustainable Development Goals using multi-temporal land, population, and nighttime light data (2019) (55)
- Developing a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data (2020) (55)
- The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (2015) (53)
- A critical knowledge pathway to low‐carbon, sustainable futures: Integrated understanding of urbanization, urban areas, and carbon (2014) (51)
- Central versus local states: Which matters more in affecting China's urban growth? (2014) (50)
- Balancing urban growth and ecological conservation: A challenge for planning and governance in China (2015) (50)
- Modeling Urban Growth in Data-Sparse Environments: A New Approach (2007) (47)
- Modeling Land-Use and LandCover Change 1 MODELING LAND-USE AND LANDCOVER CHANGE (2004) (47)
- Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene (2021) (46)
- Urbanization Forecasts, Effects on Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services (2013) (46)
- Using the ART-MMAP Neural Network to Model and Predict Urban Growth: A Spatiotemporal Data Mining Approach (2008) (44)
- Conservation priorities to protect vertebrate endemics from global urban expansion (2018) (43)
- Associations between Greenness, Impervious Surface Area, and Nighttime Lights on Biomarkers of Vascular Aging in Chennai, India (2017) (42)
- Climate Change and Cities: The role of urban land in climate change (2011) (41)
- Characterizing and measuring urban landscapes for sustainability (2019) (38)
- Remote sensing science to inform urban climate change mitigation strategies (2013) (37)
- Upward and Outward Growth: Managing Urban Expansion for More Equitable Cities in the Global South (2019) (37)
- Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Contributions from social science (2014) (36)
- From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda (2021) (36)
- Reconceptualizing land for sustainable urbanity (2014) (35)
- Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050 (2022) (33)
- Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities (2021) (32)
- Urbanization and food consumption in India (2020) (32)
- Urban slum structure: integrating socioeconomic and land cover data to model slum evolution in Salvador, Brazil (2013) (31)
- Conceptualizing and characterizing micro-urbanization: A new perspective applied to Africa (2019) (29)
- WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. (2021) (29)
- Using logit models to classify land cover and land‐cover change from Landsat Thematic Mapper (2005) (28)
- Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities (2022) (27)
- Can gains in efficiency offset the resource demands and CO2 emissions from constructing and operating the built environment (2012) (25)
- Urban economic development, changes in food consumption patterns and land requirements for food production in China (2015) (24)
- Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2020) (23)
- Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. (2021) (23)
- Tradeoffs in environmental and equity gains from job accessibility (2018) (22)
- Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Land (2009) (22)
- Sustainability. Systems integration for global sustainability. (2015) (22)
- Global Environmental Change: Taking stock at a time of transition (2014) (21)
- Co-occurrence Patterns of the Dengue Vector Aedes aegypti and Aedes mediovitattus, a Dengue Competent Mosquito in Puerto Rico (2011) (21)
- The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on Land Use Changes and Regional Planning in Developing-World Megacities: A Bangalore Case Study (2014) (20)
- Understanding and conceptualizing how urban green and blue infrastructure affects the food, water, and energy nexus: A synthesis of the literature (2021) (19)
- Capturing Multiscalar Feedbacks in Urban Land Change: A Coupled System Dynamics Spatial Logistic Approach (2012) (18)
- Infrastructure inequality is a characteristic of urbanization (2022) (17)
- Climate change and urban land systems: bridging the gaps between urbanism and land science (2016) (17)
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Under SSP/RCP Scenarios, 1990 to 2100 (2021) (14)
- Climate Change, Urban Flood Vulnerability, and Responsibility in Taipei (2013) (14)
- Global spread of local cyclone damages through urban trade networks (2020) (14)
- City Unseen (2018) (13)
- A comparison of nighttime lights data for urban energy research: Insights from scaling analysis in the US system of cities (2017) (12)
- Urban Land Use: Central to Building a Sustainable Future (2019) (12)
- Time series analysis of satellite data to characterize multiple land use transitions: a case study of urban growth and agricultural land loss in India (2018) (11)
- Persistent Increases in Nighttime Heat Stress From Urban Expansion Despite Heat Island Mitigation (2021) (11)
- Systemic vulnerabilities of the global urban-industrial network to hazards (2018) (10)
- Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development (2021) (10)
- Sub-regional Assessment of China: Urbanization in Biodiversity Hotspots (2013) (9)
- Spatial and temporal patterns of land cover change in Chengdu, China, 1978-2002 (2003) (9)
- Urban Growth in South China: Winners and Losers of China¿s Policy Reforms (2004) (9)
- 20 Years After Reforms: Challenges to Planning and Development in China’s City-Regions and Opportunities for Remote Sensing (2007) (8)
- Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition (2016) (8)
- Urban Growth in South China and Impacts on Local Precipitation (2009) (8)
- Monitoring Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China (2002) (7)
- Methods and Challenges for Using High- Temporal Resolution Data to Monitor Urban Growth (2009) (7)
- A global urban microwave backscatter time series data set for 1993–2020 using ERS, QuikSCAT, and ASCAT data (2022) (6)
- 8 Urban Land-Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking in Rapidly Growing Developing World Cities: Evidence from China (2008) (6)
- Regional Assessment of Asia (2013) (6)
- Contemporary Urbanization in India (2015) (5)
- Carbon Footprints Concentrated in Few Global Cities (2017) (5)
- Modeling land use and land cover change: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajector (2004) (5)
- Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world (2012) (4)
- Changes in Land Cover and Land Use in the Pearl River Delta, China (2012) (4)
- Corrigendum:: Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research (2016) (4)
- Quantification of the food-water-energy nexus in urban green and blue infrastructure: A synthesis of the literature (4)
- The Urban Social and Energy Use Data Embedded in Suomi-NPP VIIRS Nighttime Lights: Algorithm Overview and Status (2014) (3)
- Land-Use Competition between Food Production and Urban Expansion in China (2014) (3)
- Urban Land Use Prediction Model with Spatiotemporal Data Mining and GIS (2006) (2)
- Principles for Minimizing Global Land Impacts of Urbanization (2019) (2)
- Satellite mapping of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South (2022) (2)
- Three decades of global trends in urban microwave backscatter, building volume and city GDP (2022) (2)
- Who Is Vulnerable and Where Do They Live? Case Study of Three Districts in the Uttarakhand Region of India Himalaya (2021) (2)
- Monitoring and modeling land-use change in the Pearl River Delta, China, using satellite imagery and socioeconomic data (2000) (2)
- Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science (2022) (1)
- Ways Forward to Explore Sustainable Land Use in an Urbanizing World (2014) (1)
- Correction to Supporting Information for Simkin et al., Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050 (2022) (1)
- The Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (2022) (1)
- Focus on sustainable cities: urban solutions toward desired outcomes (2021) (1)
- Urban Land Use and Health (2019) (1)
- Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases (2022) (1)
- DRAFT 1 DRAFT DRAFT An operational framework for seeing and simulating feedbacks in land change science (2009) (1)
- MONITORING LAND-USE CHANGE IN A TIME SERIES OF SEQUENTIAL LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR THE PEARL RIVER DELTA, CHINA: AN ECONOMETRIC TECHNIQUE (2001) (1)
- Predicting urban expansion in Moscow based on night lights (2017) (1)
- A new urban narrative for sustainable development (2022) (1)
- Urbanization, food consumption and the environment (2015) (1)
- Urban land-use change and affects on regional climate: Reduced precipitation from rapidly growing cities in China (2009) (0)
- The food-water-energy nexus and green roofs in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa (2023) (0)
- A global urban microwave backscatter time series data set for 1993–2020 using ERS, QuikSCAT, and ASCAT data (2022) (0)
- ipcc wg3 ar5 chapter12 (2015) (0)
- Satellite Data Applications for Sustainable Energy Transitions (2022) (0)
- Chapter 9. Monitoring Urban Growth and Its Environmental Impacts Using Remote Sensing: Examples from China and India (2011) (0)
- Editorial Overview: 1.5°C Climate change and urban areas (2018) (0)
- Characterizing Urban Expansion of Small Cities in Nigeria and Democratic Republic of The Congo Using Landsat Time Series (2019) (0)
- Correction for Pandey et al., Infrastructure inequality is a characteristic of urbanization (2022) (0)
- The Green Economy and the Prosperity of Cities August 2011 (2011) (0)
- A conceptual framework of the human dimensions of urban emission in East Asia cities (2017) (0)
- 37. Planetary Sustainability in the Urban Century (2019) (0)
- HUMAN DRIVERS OF CHANGE IN THE EAST ASIAN MONSOON SYSTEM (2008) (0)
- Homo Sapiens as Geological Agents (2015) (0)
- 1Chapter 6 Methods and Challenges for Using High-Temporal Resolution Data to Monitor Urban Growth (2009) (0)
- The value of measuring and mapping montane urbanization (2018) (0)
- Related content Mapping the carbon footprint of EU regions (2018) (0)
- Why cities? (2021) (0)
- Public-Private Partnerships at the Universities Space Research Association's Earth from Space Institute (2019) (0)
- Editorial introduction: women in land science (2022) (0)
- Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition (2017) (0)
- Online Appendix for: “Capturing Multiscalar Feedbacks in Urban Land Change: A Coupled System Dynamics Spatial Logistic Approach” (2012) (0)
- Response diversity as a sustainability strategy (2023) (0)
- Seeing R-E-D: Making a Place for Human Ecology in Highway Crossing Design (2012) (0)
- Monitoring Annual Ecosystem Disturbance Caused Urbanization with Landsat on Google Earth Engine (GEE) (2016) (0)
- Chapter 7: Typologies of urbanization projections, effects on land use, biodiversity and ecosystem services (2012) (0)
- 2006 Monitoring Urban Growth and Its Environmental Impacts Using Remote Sensing (2013) (0)
- Mapping Land Cover Changes With Landsat Imagery and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistics; An application to the Pearl River Delta, China. (2004) (0)
- What the Latest Science on Climate Change Mitigation means for Cities and Urban Areas (2022) (0)
- An automated algorithm to detect timing of urban conversion of agricultural land with high temporal frequency MODIS NDVI data (2014) (0)
- Planetary Sustainability in the Urban Century (2019) (0)
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