Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 12, 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 9, 2021
  An editorial reviewing the contributions and impacts of telecoupling and metacoupling.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• AMBIO - Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding

  Published on January 18, 2021
  The paper argues for viewing fish from a food systems perspective to broaden the conversation on food and nutrition security and equity

• FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE - Spatial Management Measures Alter Vessel Behavior in the Aleutian Archipelago

  Published on January 7, 2021
  Scientists find out if ships honored areas to be avoided (ATBAs)

• BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION - The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates

  Published on December 3, 2020
  Doubt is cast on the long-held hope that the conservation protections granted pandas and other adored threatened species extended to their wildlife neighbors, calling for broader conservation efforts.

• ACTA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA - 人类世可持续发展背景下的远程耦合框架及其应用

  Published on November 25, 2020
  地理学报 第75卷 第11期

• NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across 2 metacoupled systems

  Published on November 17, 2020
  Understanding irrigated agriculture's impact on the food-energy-water-CO2 nexus

• INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY -- Telecoupling

  Published on October 29, 2020
  The telecoupling entry gives background on the concept, illustrates the framework that helps understand telecoupling, and provides example applications of the concept and framework

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

  Published on October 7, 2020
  Researchers combined network modeling and cluster analysis to simultaneously identify the structural changes in meat trade networks and the factors that influence the networks themselves