# overview
Dr. Burak Guneralp's research interests center on socio-economic and environmental aspects of contemporary urbanization, particularly in relation to urban sustainability. He uses various theoretical frameworks and methodologies, in particular, systems analysis and geospatial analysis.

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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2.2 Factors Relating To The Physical Environment

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North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta)

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta)

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States)

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Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

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Human Settlements, Infrastructure, and Spatial Planning

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Do persistently fast-growing juveniles contribute disproportionately to population growth? A new analysis tool for matrix models and its application to rainforest trees.

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Opportunities and costs for preventing vertebrate extinctions.

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A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems.

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Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management

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Increasing global urban exposure to flooding: An analysis of long-term annual dynamics.

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Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

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A Synthesis of Global Urbanization Projections

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Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities

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Evaluating the resilience of forest dependent communities in Central India by combining the sustainable livelihoods framework and the cross scale resilience analysis

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Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

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Effects of simultaneous incorporation of possibilistic and probabilistic uncertainty on decision making

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Flood risk and adaptation strategies under climate change and urban expansion: A probabilistic analysis using global data

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Water productivity and integrated water resources management

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Spatial Simulation and Fuzzy Threshold Analyses for Allocating Restoration Areas

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Capturing multiscalar feedbacks in urban land change: a coupled system dynamics spatial logistic approach

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Fast Sequential Feature Extraction for Recurrent Neural Network-Based Hyperspectral Image Classification

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Urban Growth Models in a Fast-Urbanizing World

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Flood risk and adaptation strategies under climate change and urban expansion: A probabilistic analysis using global data.

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Feedback loop dominance analysis of two tree mortality models: relationship between structure and behavior.

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An improved formal approach to demographic loop analysis.

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Scale-Free Structure of Surface-Water Connectivity Within a Lowland River-Floodplain Landscape

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Observations and Modeling of the Climatic Impact of Land-Use Changes

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Quality of Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Vulnerable Communities: Three Case Studies from Texas.

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Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands

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Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era

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Evaluating probabilistic data with a possibilistic criterion in land-restoration decision-making

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Sub-regional Assessment of China: Urbanization in Biodiversity Hotspots

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Urbanization-induced population migration has reduced ambient PM2.5 concentrations in China.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation

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Land Change in the Mission-Aransas Coastal Region, Texas: Implications for Coastal Vulnerability and Protected Areas

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Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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RESOURCE USE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS

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Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity

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Social segregation of ecosystem services delivery in the San Antonio region, Texas, through 2050.

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Balancing urban growth and ecological conservation: A challenge for planning and governance in China.

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A Review of Driving Factors, Scenarios, and Topics in Urban Land Change Models.

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Chapter 12 - Human settlements, infrastructure and spatial planning

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

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Spatial and temporal changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services in the San Antonio River Basin, Texas, from 1984 to 2010.

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Industrial electricity consumption and economic growth: A spatio-temporal analysis across prefecture-level cities in China from 1999 to 2014

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 progress in eigenvalue elasticity analysis

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Towards coherent loop dominance analysis

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Elasticity and loop analyses: tools for understanding forest landscape response to climatic change in spatial dynamic models

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Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation

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Resilience, Social-Ecological Rules, and Environmental Variability in a Two-Species Artisanal Fishery

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Changing global patterns of urban exposure to flood and drought hazards

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Assessing and predicting changes in vegetation cover associated with military land use activities using field monitoring data at Fort Hood, Texas

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Urbanization Forecasts, Effects on Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

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Local Assessment of stanbul: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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Water use efficiency and integrated water resource management for river basin

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Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions

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A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion.

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Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India

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Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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URBANIZATION, HABITAT LOSS AND BIODIVERSITY DECLINE Solution pathways to break the cycle

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US Metropolitan Spatial Structure Evolution: Investigating Spatial Patterns of Employment Growth from 2000 to 2010

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Systematic Modeling of Land Use Impacts on Surface Climate

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Impacts of Land Change on Ecosystem Services in the San Antonio River Basin, Texas, from 1984 to 2010

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Influence of changes in developed land and precipitation on hydrology of a coastal Texas watershed

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Conservation priorities to protect vertebrate endemics from global urban expansion

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Environmental impacts of urban growth from an integrated dynamic perspective: A case study of Shenzhen, South China

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What is the Direction of Land Change? A New Approach to Land-Change Analysis

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Can gains in efficiency offset the resource demands and CO2 emissions from constructing and operating the built environment?

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Dynamic modelling of a shallow freshwater lake for ecological and economic sustainability

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Physical and economic processes of water scarcity and water allocation for integrated river basin management

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Infrastructure development with(out) ecological conservation: the Northern Forests in Istanbul

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Urbanization and Global Trends in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands

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Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis

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Texas A&M University; Geography; 3147 TAMU

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Study: Swath Of Natural Habitat Larger Than The UK Will Be Urbanized By 2030

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Worldwide urban expansion causing problems

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Texas A&M Study: Worldwide Urban Expansion Causing Problems

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Yi, Hoonchong (2017-05). Spatial and Temporal Changes in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Provision in the San Antonio River Basin, Texas, from 1984 to 2010. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Huang, Xiaoyan (2014-08). U.S. Metropolitan Spatial Structure and Employment Growth. Doctoral Dissertation.