Publications
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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES - China’s Environment on a Metacoupled Planet
Published on October 19, 2018
We suggest systems approaches such as nexus approaches and flow-centered governance to help China achieve ecological civilization and become an environmental leader on a metacoupled planet. -
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Network analysis as a tool for quantifying the dynamics of metacoupled systems: an example using global soybean trade
Published on October 14, 2018
Network analysis is a powerful and flexible tool that has been used to quantify social, economic, and ecological systems. We evaluate the utility of network analysis for quantifying metacoupled systems by assessing global soybean trade among 217 countries. -
JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES -- Spillover effect offsets the conservation effort in the Amazon
Published on October 4, 2018
We used the two supply-chain agreements implemented in the Amazon biome as examples and evaluated their spillover effects to the Cerrado. -
ECOLOGY, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY - An integrated framework for achieving sustainable development goals around the world
Published on September 15, 2018
One of the biggest global challenges is to achieve the United Nations‟ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed upon by 193 countries in 2015 -
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Nexus approaches to global sustainable development
Published on September 14, 2018
Recent quantitative studies have revealed nexus approaches can uncover synergies and detect trade-offs among sectors. Nexus approaches have potential to reduce negative surprises and promote integrated planning, management and governance. -
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Complex effects of natural disasters on protected areas through altered telecouplings
Published on September 14, 2018
With long-term data collected in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas, we applied the telecoupling framework to assess the effects of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on telecouplings that link Wolong with the rest of the world -
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program
Published on July 9, 2018
This study highlights that local human–nature interactions driven by telecouplings, such as human–wildlife conflicts, may trigger feedbacks that affect telecouplings themselves. -
Neglected environmental health impacts of China's supply-side structural reform
Published on June 6, 2018
“Supply-side structural reform” (SSSR) has been the most important ongoing economic reform in China since 2015, but its important environmental health effects have not been properly assessed -
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS - Changes in Human Well-being and Rural Livelihoods Under Natural Disasters
Published on May 31, 2018
Rural areas around the world are increasingly exposed to natural disasters. -
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY -- The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS application to systematically analyze telecouplings and sustainable development
Published on May 16, 2018
To operationalize the framework, we have developed the Telecoupling GeoApp, a new web-based component of the Telecoupling Toolbox that provides researchers and practitioners with a useful platform to address globally important issues. -
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Published on May 9, 2018
The world has become increasingly telecoupled through distant flows of information, energy, people, organisms, goods, and matter -
PNAS -- Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade
Published on May 4, 2018
Our study shows that international food trade can also lead to environmental pollution in importing countries. -
Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion
Published on March 28, 2018
To feed the world’s growing population, more food needs to be produced using currently available cropland -
Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes
Published on March 22, 2018
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have been widely implemented as a promising tool to conserve ecosystems while facilitating socioeconomic development -
Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases
Published on February 21, 2018
Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries -
Cropping System Conversion led to Organic Carbon Change in China's Mollisols Regions
Published on January 28, 2018
Land use change driven by diet, globalization, and technology advancement have greatly influenced agricultural production and environment in the mollisols region of China -
Uncertainty of future projections of species distributions in mountainous regions
Published on January 22, 2018
Multiple factors introduce uncertainty into projections of species distributions under climate change. The uncertainty introduced by the choice of baseline climate information -
Effects of grain size and niche breadth on species distribution modeling
Published on December 27, 2017
This study investigate the effect of grain size and niche breadth on SDMs. -
Peruvian anchoveta as a telecoupled fisheries system
Published on December 21, 2017
As economic and ideational globalization accelerate, fisheries are becoming more globally connected via movements of fish products and fisheries finances, information, and stakeholders throughout the world. -
Evaluating Landscape Options for Corridor Restoration between Giant Panda Reserves
Published on December 21, 2017
Our study suggested that in this landscape, automobile tunnels are the best means to remove current barriers to giant panda movements caused by anthropogenic interferences.