Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• NATURE FOOD - International food trade benefits biodiversity and food security in low-income countries

  Published on May 12, 2022
  This study calculates food trade flows among high-hotspot, low-hotspot and non-hotspot countries, including high- and low-income ones, over 2000–2018.

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  Nature News & Views - We can have biodiversity and eat too

  Published on May 12, 2022
  Stuart Pimm of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment comments on Jack Liu and Min Gon Chung's Nature Food paper on the global food trade and biodiversity

• NATURE -- Fuel, food and fertilizer shortage will hit biodiversity and climate

  Published on April 21, 2022
  The Russia-Ukraine war will affect biodiversity and the environment far beyond the war zones, with implications for sustainability and well-being worldwide.

• AMBIO: The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability

  Published on March 30, 2022
  A synthesis of external influences analyzed in Arctic-coupled human and natural systems literature show the Arctic is affected by external influences, including global markets, climate change, governance, military security, and tourism.

• BECHE-DE-MER INFORMATION JOURNAL - Characterising changes in a decade of Mexican sea cucumber crime (2011–2021) using media reports

  Published on March 29, 2022
  The recent collapse of Mexican sea cucumber populations underscores the urgency of damage that can come to wildlife and people when crime engulfs international trade

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses

  Published on March 24, 2022
  A correlational network approach and a global SDG database of 166 countries to analyze the evolution of SDG interactions along a progression of sustainable development measured by the SDG Index.

• ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS - Bundling regions for promoting Sustainable Development Goals

  Published on March 18, 2022
  The study sheds light on identifying regions' strengths and weaknesses in achieving all SDGs, which can inform targeted sustainability actions for regions within certain SDG bundles and promote collaborations among regions with different bundles.

• SUSTAINABLE HORIZONS - How much is global business sectors contributing to sustainable development goals?

  Published on January 31, 2022
  Benchmarked the engagement of the Fortune Global Top 500 corporations with the SDGs based on publicly available information screened, and revealed that 304 of the 500 corporations had presented relevant content on their websites.

• NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW - Polluted lake restoration to promote sustainability in the Yangtze River Basin, China

  Published on January 15, 2022
  Synthesized water pollution governance and evaluate the effectiveness of pollution mitigation actions for rivers and lakes in China. We focus on the main stem of the Yangtze River and 25 associated lakes from the mid to lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

• EARTH INTERACTIONS - Complex effects of telecouplings on forest dynamics: an agent-based modeling approach

  Published on January 1, 2022
  Developed an agent-based model and simulated the impacts of two globally common telecouplings, nature-based tourism and labor migration, on forest dynamics of a rural CHANS, China’s Wolong Nature Reserve (Wolong).

• AMBIO - Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability

  Published on December 28, 2021
  We ranked the two countries on a variety of environmental challenges and solutions, illustrating quantitatively their environmental footprint and the parallels between them regarding the threats to their human populations and biodiversity.

• BIODIVERSITY - Six novel interdisciplinary resilience principles emerging from interdisciplinary exchange around post-COVID-19 centres and peripheries

  Published on December 7, 2021
  Reported on lessons draw at an interdisciplinary, international, and virtual symposium, ‘Centres and Peripheries: Reconfiguring Post-COVID-19 Landscapes’ funded by the UK Embassy to France in the context of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference 2021.

• ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS - Principal indicators to monitor sustainable development goals

  Published on November 18, 2021
  Identify a subset of SDG indicators (principal indicators) that are relatively easy to collect data for and also are representative for all the indicators by considering the complex interrelationship among them.

• 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.

• 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.