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• Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

  Sustainability: When both humans and nature thrive. Pandas. Global food trade. Fisheries. UN Sustainable Development Goals. Creating innovative systems approaches to saving the world

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• 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.

• If Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus is ‘the most diverse vertebrate', what is the lake charr Salvelinus namaycush?

  Published on June 17, 2015
  Teleost fishes are prominent vertebrate models of evolution, illustrated among old-world radiations by the Cichlidae of East African Great Lakes and new-world radiations by the circumpolar Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus. Herein, we describe variation

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Complex interrelationships between ecosystem services supply and tourism demand: General framework and evidence from the origin of three Asian rivers

  Published on December 19, 2018
  This study identifies complex interrelationships between the demand for nature-based tourism, which is a type of cultural ES, ES supply, and the economy simultaneously, using China’s Qinghai Province as a demonstration site.

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS -- Climate variability and trends at a national scale

  Published on June 12, 2017
  Examining the daily minutia of climate, not just temperature, but also sunshine, precipitation and soil moisture simultaneously all over a country gives a better understanding of how variable a land’s climate can be.

• A low-carbon road map for China

  Published on August 13, 2013
  Recycling, renewables and a reinvigorated domestic energy market will allow China to lead the world in cutting emissions.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years

  Published on February 21, 2019
  A systematic review of the first five years of telecoupling research to evaluate the state of telecoupling science and identify strengths, areas to be improved, and promising avenues for future study.

• 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

• 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.

• Performance and prospects of payments for ecosystem services programs: Evidence from China

  Published on June 23, 2013
  Systematic evaluation of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs is crucial for guiding policy design and implementation

• Household-level heterogeneity of water resources within common-pool resource systems

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Prior work has demonstrated the ability of common property systems to sustain institutional arrangements governing natural resources over long periods of time

• JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE -- Telecoupled land-use changes in distant countries

  Published on February 16, 2017
  A study of the spatial attributes of soybean land changes within and among trading countries at the same time.

• SCIENCE -- Systems integration for global sustainability

  Published on February 27, 2015
  Systems integration—holistic approaches to integrating various components of coupled human and natural systems—is critical to understand socioeconomic and environmental interconnections and to create sustainability solutions.

• Improving the efficiency of conservation policies with the use of surrogates derived from remotely sensed and ancillary data

  Published on October 18, 2012
  Conservation policies are emerging in many places around the world, many of which involve payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes

• Activity patterns of the giant panda

  Published on July 30, 2015
  Activity patterns of the elusive and endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are not well understood

• Complex Forces Affect China's Biodiversity

  Published on September 19, 2013
  Enormous global efforts have been put into biodiversity conservation, but biodiversity loss continues rapidly in many parts of the world, including China

• Reply to Bridgewater and Babin: Need for a new protected area category for ecosystem services

  Published on May 30, 2017
  We thank Bridgewater and Babin for their perspective. We are aware of, and appreciate, the consideration of ecosystem services in the management of Biosphere Reserves.

• Some Roots of Terrorism

  Published on November 1, 2002
  Although various hypotheses about the causes of terrorism have been proposed, a number of important factors have been largely ignored

• Changes in Human Population Structure: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation

  Published on April 29, 1999
  Human population size and growth have been recognized as important factors affecting biodiversity, but the impacts of population structural changes on biodiversity are not clear.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Integration across a metacoupled world

  Published on November 26, 2017
  This paper presents an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling).

• 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