Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION - INTEGRATED SDM DATABASE: ENHANCING THE RELEVANCE AND UTILITY OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS IN CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT

  Published on November 7, 2021
  A user-friendly spatial database of predicted sites in a species’ prediction range, derived from SDM results that synthesise and summarise SDM predictions and uncertainty, human impacts, restoration features, and management priorities.

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services

  Published on October 21, 2021
  Improved understand natural infrastructure's in urban water networks must underpin strategic decision-making to sustainably provide freshwater ecosystem services to global cities.

• BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH - Global red and processed meat trade and non-communicable diseases

  Published on October 7, 2021
  Aimed to examine the impact of red and processed meat trade on diet-related NCDs and to identify which countries are particularly vulnerable to diet-related NCDs due to red and processed meat trade.

• ECOLOGICAL MODELLING - Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems

  Published on October 1, 2021
  Reviewed the advances of ABM in social, ecological, and socio-ecological systems, compare ABM with other traditional, equation-based models, provide guidelines for ABM novice, modelers.

• CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - Complex effects of habitat amount and fragmentation on functional connectivity and inbreeding in a giant panda population

  Published on September 20, 2021
  Research shows giant pandas would benefit from some unsuitable habitat across the landscape.

• Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems

  Published on September 20, 2021
  Human-environment interactions within and across borders are now more influential than ever, posing unprecedented sustainability challenges. The framework of metacoupling (interactions within and across adjacent and distant coupled human-environment ...

• Efficiency analysis of metacoupling of water transfer based on the parallel data envelopment analysis model: A case of the South-North Water Transfer Project-Middle Route in China

  Published on August 15, 2021
  The deepening of globalization and the rapid socio-economic development have contributed to the increasing demand for water resources, which intensified the problem of water shortage. Cross-regional water transfer is an effective measure to alleviate...

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY - Synthesizing social and environmental sensing to monitor the impact of large-scale infrastructure development

  Published on August 5, 2021
  A unique look at two enormous global projects combining remote sensing and social media to understand if early concerns about environmental damage emerged, and public sentiment.

• ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - Integrating multiple influencing factors in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services

  Published on August 2, 2021
  Our study highlights the necessity of applying integrated factors in evaluating socioeconomic effects of PES — a crucial input for guiding practice of PES programs to support sustainable development.

• LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING - Dramatic mariculture expansion and associated driving factors in Southeastern China

  Published on July 16, 2021
  Using high-resolution satellite images, here we provide a first ever detailed analysis to map the spatiotemporal dynamics and explore associated driving factors of mariculture expansion in Southeastern China.

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - US–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development

  Published on June 25, 2021
  By building closer collaborations at both governmental and nongovernmental levels and sustained collaborations on science and technology, the U.S. and China can act together to help achieve the SDGs by utilizing complementary expertise and resources.

• ONE EARTH - Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene

  Published on May 21, 2021
  The unexamined true costs of sand – broadly, construction has spurred a group of scientists to call for a stronger focus on understanding the physical dimension of sand use and extraction.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Range-wide assessment of the impact of China’s nature reserves on giant panda habitat quality

  Published on May 15, 2021
  Assessed the impacts of nature reserves (a type of PAs) across the entire geographic range of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) on panda habitat suitability change between 2001 and 2013 using the matching approach.

• AMBIO - Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework

  Published on March 16, 2021
  An intived “Behind the Paper” reflection on the paper by Liu et al. 2007 Ambio, one of the “most influential papers in the past 50 years” since the first issue of Ambio, a Journal of Environment and Society, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - A global assessment of the impact of individual protected areas on preventing forest loss

  Published on March 11, 2021
  Impacts of 54,792 PAs worldwide quantified to explore preventing forest loss from 2000to 2015, and assessed important landscape and management factors affecting the impacts of PAs.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Through the Lens of Telecoupling and Metacoupling: New Perspectives for Global Sustainability

  Published on March 8, 2021
  An editorial reviewing the contributions and impacts of telecoupling and metacoupling.

• FRONTIERS OF ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - The evolution of macrosystems biology

  Published on February 1, 2021
  Analyses indicates that macrosystems biology emphasizes large scales, has deep roots in ecological disciplines, and may emerge as a new research frontier, but this last point has yet to be proven.

• FRONTIERS OF ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems

  Published on February 1, 2021
  In other words, all that’s local is a lot more global, and the scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away.

• SUSTAINABILITY - Sustainability Evaluation on the Grain to Green Program in the Hexi Corridor of China: A Metacoupled System Perspective

  Published on February 1, 2021
  Establishing a metacoupled model to quantitatively evaluate aspects of ecosystem sustainability in China, providing insight to the theory and application of sustainability science.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Spatial variation and influencing factors of the effectiveness of afforestation in China's Loess Plateau

  Published on January 29, 2021
  Results suggest ways to improve af- forestation design and implementation.