Alexandria Poole, PhD Candidate, published as co-author in Sustainability an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. The article, "The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems," discusses urbanization as a global transformative process and proposes a conceptual framework to broaden the development of urban ecological research and its application to sustainability.