Handbook on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives global environmental change. Theme 2 addresses the pathways through which global environmental change affects the urban system. Theme 3 addresses the interactions and responses within the urban system in response to global environmental change. Theme 4 centers on critical emerging research.

Karen C. Seto is Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA, and Co-Chair of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project of Future Earth.

William D. Solecki is Professor of Geography at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, and Director Emeritus of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities.

Corrie A. Griffith is Executive Officer of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project of Future Earth, headquartered at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA.