Xuemei Bai

TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors argue that local implementation and public scrutiny will make or break the government's urbanization strategy, and propose a public-private approach to improve urbanization.

TL;DR: Xuemei Bai and colleagues call for long-term, cross-disciplinary studies to reduce carbon emissions and urban risks from global warming.

TL;DR: It is suggested that under its current economic growth model, it might be difficult for China to control urban expansion without sacrificing economic growth, and China’s policy to stop the loss of agricultural land, for food security, might be challenged by its policy to promote economic growth through urbanization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the changing role of science and the theoretical, methodological and analytical challenges in considering futures of the Anthropocene, and present three broad groups of research questions on societal goals for the future; major trends and dynamics that might favor or hinder them; and factors that might propel or impede transformations towards desirable future.