Telecoupling

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  Scientists advocate breaking laws – of geography and ecology

  Published on February 2, 2021
  All that’s local is a lot more global, and scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away.

• 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.

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  Addressing humans’ voracious consumption of nature

  Published on December 15, 2020
  In a collection of essays by leaders is sustainability sciences curated by the UK's Royal Society, Jianguo "Jack" Liu links global appetites to biodiversity loss

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  Journal seeks telecoupling framework applications

  Published on December 14, 2020
  A special issue in an international journal invites articles on soil conservation and environmental sustainability. Deadline: April 30.

• 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

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  Farms, tables and revealing vast impacts between and beyond

  Published on November 17, 2020
  A unique study in Nature Communications examines how food, energy, water and greenhouse gases create a vast front in the battle to feed the planet.

• 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

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  Telecoupling gains entry in new encyclopedia

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

• 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

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  Shocking biodiversity decline more than one-solution crisis

  Published on October 22, 2020
  MSU sustainability scientist Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of an international team of scientists analyzing new goals for nature in a United Nations effort published in Science Magazine.

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  Networks, clusters and how global meat markets tick

  Published on October 7, 2020
  MSU researchers in Scientific Reports combined a network model approach with cluster analysis of meat trade in 134 countries from 1995 to 2015.

• 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

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  New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure

  Published on September 17, 2020
  Sustainability scientists at MSU find policies governing wildlife trade and tourism sometimes have more success than intended to achieve some of the UN SDGs. Yet in some cases those paths have created roadblocks and detours to success.

• SUSTAINABILITY - Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems

  Published on September 17, 2020
  We used a new integrated framework to guide SDG synergy and trade-off analysis within and across systems, as influenced by cross-boundary tourism and wildlife translocations.

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  Striving and stumbling towards sustainability amongst pandas and people

  Published on September 3, 2020
  Understanding how achieving one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals spins off more SDG success – or sabotages progress on another goal across spatial and administrative boundaries.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world

  Published on September 3, 2020
  Understanding SDG synergies and tradeoffs across spatial/administrative boundaries using the metacoupling framework using tourism and panda loans as an example.

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  Well-off countries need trade to cut environmental woes

  Published on July 13, 2020
  A first analysis of its kind shows a common problem between haves and have-nots. Trading internationally was generally good for developed countries but resulted in environmental losses for developing countries.