Burak Güneralp Ph.D
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Burak Güneralp is a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU). Prior to joining TAMU, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His research interests center on interactions between socio-economic and biophysical systems, particularly in relation to urbanization and sustainability. He uses various theoretical frameworks and methodologies, including systems analysis and geospatial analysis, to study several socio-economic and environmental problems that cut across disciplinary boundaries. More recently, he has applied his analytical framework to key issues about urban sustainability, ranging from the drivers of urban land change to environmental impacts of urbanization.
Burak has served as a coordinating lead author for the United Nations Cities and Biodiversity Outlook, the first comprehensive global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodiversity, and ecosystems. He has also served as a contributing author for the chapter on Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. Since 2014, he is a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Research Interests/Expertise: Urbanization and global environmental change, urban land change, sustainability, interactions between socio-economic and biophysical systems, systems analysis, geospatial analysis
Selected Publications
Elmqvist, T., Zipperer, W.C., & Güneralp, B. (2016). Urbanization, habitat loss and biodiversity decline: solution pathways to break the cycle. In K.C. Seto, W.D. Solecki, & C.A. Griffith (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (pp. 139 – 151). London: Routledge.
Elmqvist, T., Zipperer, W.C., & Güneralp, B. (2016). Urbanization, habitat loss and biodiversity decline: solution pathways to break the cycle. In K.C. Seto, W.D. Solecki, & C.A. Griffith (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (pp. 139 – 151). London: Routledge.
Güneralp, B., Perlstein, A., & Seto, K.C. (2015). Balancing urban growth and ecological conservation: A challenge for planning and governance in China. Ambio. doi: 10.1007/s13280-015-0625-0
Güneralp, B., Güneralp, I., & Liu, Y. (2015). Changing global patterns of urban exposure to flood and drought hazards. Global Environmental Change, 31, pp. 217-225. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.002
McDonald, R., Güneralp, B., Zipperer, W., & Marcotullio, P. (2015). The Future of Global Urbanization and the Environment. Solutions Journal, 6(5), pp. 60 – 69.