YALE UNIVERSITY

The Seto Lab researches the linkages between urbanization, global change, and sustainability. We are interested both in understanding fundamental processes to advance academic knowledge and in crafting rules of thumb for policy application. While many of our studies are at a global scale, we focus on China and India, the regions undergoing the largest urban transitions in the world. We undertake local case studies to understand ground-level urban processes and regional differences in urban change. Many of our studies employ remotely sensed satellite imagery, data which provide a synoptic, global record of urban change and expansion over the last 40 years. Our research also relies on geographic information science (GIS), socioeconomic indicators, statistical analysis, interviews, and historical assessments to understand why and how urbanization has and will occur worldwide... The lab group consists of students, scientists, and scholars trained in remote sensing, geography, economics,..

Also known as: urbanization

Primary location: New Haven United States