RESEARCH
The Urban Studies Institute researches urban economic resilience and inclusive development including questions of urbanization and development, sustainability, diversity, inequality, life-chances, social/spatial integration, access to public goods, and urban health disparities.
RESEARCH
U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia State the No. 2 most innovative college or university in the nation.
Who are cities for? Who has the right to shape their production and access the resources of urban societies? And what are the consequences of urban policies for marginalized, vulnerable, and disenfranchised communities?
The new information economy is urban-based, providing the bulk of new jobs and the lion’s share of national and global GDP. The economic resilience of cities is ever more crucial to the well-being of nations.
Our grand challenge is to reimagine the relationship between humans and the environment. We have an opportunity, and an obligation, to make our world and cities more equitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Publications
- The role of diverse values of nature in visioning and transforming towards just and sustainable futures
- Beyond Academia: A case for reviews of gray literature for science-policy processes and applied research
- Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
- The Urban Nature Indexes (UNI): A New, Flexible Tool to Comprehensively Monitor Urban Ecological Performance
- Diverse values of nature for sustainability
- The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?
- Assessing Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability of Future Visions Across Two Urban Scales
- Public Response to Solar Geoengineering: How Media Frames About Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Affect Opinions
- A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services
- Sensemaking for Entangled Urban Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems in the Anthropocene