Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

By Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp, L. Hutyra. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Urban energy consumption: Different insights from energy flow analysis, input–output analysis and ecological network analysis (2015, background): “The rapid urbanization worldwide has begged the question of how to manage energy use in cities in pursuit of sustainable socioeconomic development [5,6].”
Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review (2017, positive): “This conversion of land-cover to urban land-use results in the loss of key habitats (Knapp et al. 2017; Seto et al. 2012).”
Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands (2016, background): “We base our study on a spatially explicit urban area expansion probability dataset (4) and two gridded datasets on global croplands in 2000 (15) and 2005 (16).”
Usage and perception of urban green space of older adults in the high-density city of Hong Kong (2021, background): “…2010), reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide (Nowak et al., 2002, 2014), removing air pollutants (Morakinyo et al., 2016) and enhancing biodiversity (Seto et al., 2012; Gunnarsson et al., 2017) and improving physical and mental health of urban residents, also older adults (Kabisch et al., 2017,…”
Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) in urban ecosystems: A review (2016, background): “Moreover, the estimated percentage of the world population living in urban areas now exceeds 50% (Grimm et al., 2008) and almost 60% will be living in urban areas by the year 2030 (Seto et al., 2012; Güneralp & Seto, 2013).”
Effects of rural–urban development transformation on energy consumption and CO2 emissions: A regional analysis in China (2015, background): “By 2030, urban expansion is forecasted to have a significant impact on global carbon pools, especially in the pan-tropics [87].”
Review: Toward management of urban ponds for freshwater biodiversity (2019, background): “Between 2000 and 2030, built-up areas are likely to nearly triple in surface area (Seto et al. 2012).”
Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density (2018, background): “Urban areas are expanding at unprecedented rates as the human population grows and migrates from rural to urban homes (Seto et al. 2012).”