Land-use Changes Across Distant Places: Design Of A Telecoupled Agent-based Model
November 20, 2019 - Dou, Yue; Millington, James D. A.; Bicudo Da Silva, Ramon Felipe; McCord, Paul; Vina, Andres; Song, Qian; Yu, Qiangyi; Wu, Wenbin; Batistella, Mateus; Moran, Emilio; Liu, Jianguo
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EmailJournal or Book Title: JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
Volume/Issue: 14
Year Published: 2019
Land-use changes across distant places are increasingly affected by international agricultural trade, but most of the impacts and feedback remain unknown. The telecoupling framework - an analytical tool for examining socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances - can be used to conceptualize the impacts of agricultural trade on land-use change and feedbacks across borders of importing and exporting countries and across spatio-temporal scales of land systems. We apply the framework to design an agent-based model (TeleABM) that represents land-use changes in telecoupled systems to investigate how local land-use changes are affected by flows. The Brazil-China telecoupled soybean system is used as a demonstration. With examples of research questions, we explore the possible applications of this model for assessing farm-level income, fertilizer usage, deforestation, and agricultural intensification, as a tool to quantify socio-ecological impacts between distant places and holistically inform sustainable land-practices across system boundaries.
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1687769
Type of Publication: Article