Karen C. Seto

Chen T-HKaren, Pandey B, Seto KC.  2023.  Detecting subpixel human settlements in mountains using deep learning: A case of the Hindu Kush Himalaya 1990–2020. Remote Sensing of Environment. 294:113625.

Meng F, Yuan Q, Bellezoni RA, de Oliveira JAPuppim, Cristiano S, Shah AMehmood, Liu G, Yang Z, Seto KC.  2023.  Quantification of the food-water-energy nexus in urban green and blue infrastructure: A synthesis of the literature. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 188:106658.

Chen T-HKaren, Seto KC.  2022.  Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science. Journal of Land Use Science. :1-17.

Pandey B, Brelsford C, Seto KC.  2022.  Infrastructure inequality is a characteristic of urbanizationSignificance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(15)

Rusk J, Maharjan A, Tiwari P, Chen T-HKaren, Shneiderman S, Turin M, Seto KC.  2022.  Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Science of The Total Environment. 804:150039.

Zhou Y, Li X, Chen W, Meng L, Wu Q, Gong P, Seto KC.  2022.  Satellite mapping of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(46)

Frolking S, Mahtta R, Milliman T, Seto KC.  2022.  Three decades of global trends in urban microwave backscatter, building volume and city GDP. Remote Sensing of Environment. 281:113225.

Mahtta R, Fragkias M, Güneralp B, Mahendra A, Reba M, Wentz EA, Seto KC.  2022.  Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities. npj Urban Sustainability. 2(1)

Seto KC, Churkina G, Hsu A, Keller M, Newman PWG, Qin B, Ramaswami A.  2021.  From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 46(1):377-415.

Huang K, Lee X, Stone B, Knievel J, Bell ML, Seto KC.  2021.  Persistent Increases in Nighttime Heat Stress From Urban Expansion Despite Heat Island Mitigation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 126(4)

Bellezoni RA, Meng F, He P, Seto KC.  2021.  Understanding and conceptualizing how urban green and blue infrastructure affects the food, water, and energy nexus: A synthesis of the literature. Journal of Cleaner Production. 289:125825.

Zimmerer KS, Duvall CS, Jaenicke EC, Minaker LM, Reardon T, Seto KC.  2021.  Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development. One Earth. 4(11):1557-1568.

Grainger C, Tiwari PC, Joshi B, Reba M, Seto KC.  2021.  Who Is Vulnerable and Where Do They Live? Case Study of Three Districts in the Uttarakhand Region of India Himalaya Mountain Research and Development. 41(2)

Shughrue C, Werner BT, Seto KC.  2020.  Global spread of local cyclone damages through urban trade networks. Nature Sustainability.

Reba M, Seto KC.  2020.  A systematic review and assessment of algorithms to detect, characterize, and monitor urban land change. Remote Sensing of Environment. 242:111739.

Güneralp B, Reba M, Hales BU, Wentz EA, Seto KC.  2020.  Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4):044015.

Pandey B, Reba M, Joshi P.K, Seto KC.  2020.  Urbanization and food consumption in India. Scientific Reports. 10(1)

Mahtta R, Mahendra A, Seto KC.  2019.  Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+ Environmental Research Letters. 14(12):124077.

Stokes EC, Seto KC.  2019.  Characterizing urban infrastructural transitions for the Sustainable Development Goals using multi-temporal land, population, and nighttime light data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 234:111430.

Huang K, Li X, Liu X, Seto KC.  2019.  Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050. Environmental Research Letters. 14(11):114037.

Seto KC, Pandey B.  2019.  Urban Land Use: Central to Building a Sustainable Future. One Earth. 1(2):168-170.

Seto KC, Reba M.  2018.  City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet.

Huang C-W, McDonald RI, Seto KC.  2018.  The importance of land governance for biodiversity conservation in an era of global urban expansion. Landscape and Urban Planning. 173:44-50.

Creutzig F, Baiocchi G, Bierkandt R, Pichler P-P, Seto KC.  2015.  Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. :201315545.

Zhang Q, Wallace J, Deng X, Seto KC.  2014.  Central versus local states: Which matters more in affecting China's urban growth? Land Use Policy. 38:487-496.

O'Mara MP, Seto KC.  2014.  The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on Land Use Changes and Regional Planning in Developing-World Megacities: A Bangalore Case Study. Megacities: Our Global Urban Future. :81-97.

Seto KC, Reenberg A.  2014.  Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era.

Wentz E, Anderson S, Fragkias M, Netzband M, Mesev V, Myint S, Quattrochi D, Rahman A, Seto KC.  2014.  Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 6(5):3879-3905.

Pandey B, Seto KC.  2014.  Urbanization and agricultural land loss in India: Comparing satellite estimates with census data. Journal of Environmental Management.

Zhang Q, Seto KC.  2013.  Can Night-Time Light Data Identify Typologies of Urbanization? A Global Assessment of Successes and Failures Remote Sensing. 5(7):3476-3494.

Fragkias M, Lobo J, Strumsky D, Seto KC.  2013.  Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Areas PLoS ONE. 8(6):e64727.

Güneralp B, Seto KC, Ramachandran M.  2013.  Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5(4):445–451.

Güneralp B, Seto KC.  2013.  Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation. Environmental Research Letters. 8(1):014025.

Frolking S, Milliman T, Seto KC, Friedl MA.  2013.  A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009. Environmental Research Letters. 8(2):024004.

Jiang L, Deng X, Seto KC.  2013.  The impact of urban expansion on agricultural land use intensity in China. Land Use Policy. 35:33-39.

Srinivasan V, Seto KC, Emerson R, Gorelick SM.  2013.  The impact of urbanization on water vulnerability: A coupled human–environment system approach for Chennai, India. Global Environmental Change. 23(1):229-239.

Solecki W, Seto KC, Marcotullio PJ.  2013.  It's Time for an Urbanization Science. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 55(1):12-17.

Pandey B, Joshi P.K., Seto KC.  2013.  Monitoring urbanization dynamics in India using DMSP/OLS night time lights and SPOT-VGT data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 23:49-61.

Seto KC, Christensen P.  2013.  Remote sensing science to inform urban climate change mitigation strategies. Urban Climate. 3:1-6.

Zhang Q, Schaaf C, Seto KC.  2013.  The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity. Remote Sensing of Environment. 129:32-41.

Güneralp B, Seto KC.  2012.  Can gains in efficiency offset the resource demands and CO2 emissions from constructing and operating the built environment? Applied Geography. 32(1):40-50.

Güneralp B, Reilly MK, Seto KC.  2012.  Capturing multiscalar feedbacks in urban land change: a coupled system dynamics spatial logistic approach. Environment and Planning B. 39(5):858-879.

Seto KC, Güneralp B, Hutyra LR.  2012.  Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Jiang L, Deng X, Seto KC.  2012.  Multi-level modeling of urban expansion and cultivated land conversion for urban hotspot counties in China. Landscape and Urban Planning. 108(2-4):131-139.

Seto KC, Reenberg A, Boone CG, Fragkias M, Haase D, Langanke T, Marcotullio PJ, Munroe D, Olah B, Simon D.  2012.  Urban land teleconnections and sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencies of the United States of America. 109(20):7687-7892.

Little E, Barerra R, Seto KC, Diuk-Wasser M.  2011.  Co-occurrence patterns of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti and Aedes mediovitattus, a dengue competent mosquito in Puerto Rico. EcoHealth. 8(3):365-375.

Seto KC.  2011.  Exploring the dynamics of migration to mega-delta cities in Asia and Africa: Contemporary drivers and future scenarios. Global Environmental Change. 21(S1):S94-S107.

Zhang Q, Seto KC.  2011.  Mapping urbanization dynamics at regional and global scales using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS nighttime light data. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 115(9):2320-2329.

Seto KC, Fragkias M, Güneralp B, Reilly MK.  2011.  A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion. PLOS ONE. 6:e23777.

Seto KC, Satterthwaite D.  2010.  Interactions between urbanization and global environmental change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2:127-128.