Telecoupling

Publications

• 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.

• 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.

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY -- Impacts of International Trade on Achieving Global Sustainable Development Goals

  Published on July 13, 2020

  International trade positively affected global progress towards seven environment-related SDGs. International trade improved SDG scores of most evaluated developed countries but reduced the SDG scores of over 60% of the evaluated developing countries

• PEOPLE AND NATURE - Levers and leverage points to sustainability

  Published on July 1, 2020

  Applying a social–ecological systems lens, we identified eight priority points for intervention (leverage points) and five overarching strategic actions and priority interventions (levers), which appear to be key to societal transformation

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Alleviating water scarcity and poverty in drylands through telecouplings: Vegetable trade and tourism in northwest China

  Published on June 26, 2020

  Water scarcity evaluated using a composite index that considered both water resources and poverty and assessed the effects of the vegetable trade and tourism on water scarcity and income.

• GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE - Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany

  Published on March 20, 2020

  A first multi-ES quantification of a nation's use of ecosystem services from abroad.

• JASSS - Land-Use Changes in Distant Places: Implementation of a Telecoupled Agent-Based Model

  Published on January 31, 2020

  We construct a new type of agent-based model (ABM) that can simulate land-use changes at multiple distant places (namely TeleABM, telecoupled agent-based model).

• AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM HEALTH & MGT - Using the telecoupling framework to improve Great Lakes fisheries sustainability

  Published on December 2, 2019

  Understanding the causes and consequences of complex social-ecological fisheries interactions and develop informed strategies for sustainable fisheries management and governance

• JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE - Land-use changes across distant places: design of a telecoupled agent-based model

  Published on November 18, 2019

  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.

• SUSTAINABILITY - Telecoupled Food Trade Affects Pericoupled Trade and Intracoupled Production

  Published on May 22, 2019

  The extent to which the telecoupled food trade affected the pericoupled trade and intracoupled processes holds implications for the true extent of production driven by distant demands.

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH - International Tourism Dynamics in a Globalized World: A Social Network Analysis Approach

  Published on May 16, 2019

  Global tourism networks have become highly consolidated over time and that reduced transaction costs (e.g., language, distance, and visa policies) are more important in attracting international tourists than natural and cultural attractions.

• EXPLORING LAND USE CHANGE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (Book chapter) What is Telecoupling?

  Published on May 5, 2019

  Book chapter -- preview of first 20 pages

• CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRO SUSTAINABILITY - Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on May 1, 2019

  We evaluate whether recent land-system science research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities for addressing sustainability in coupled human-natural systems.

• ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS - Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows

  Published on April 14, 2019

  We compile different indicators for assessing interregional ES flows and evaluate their suitability for national and regional ES assessments.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- The Role of Citizen Science in Conservation under the Telecoupling Framework

  Published on April 2, 2019

  We use the monarch butterfly, a migratory species of high conservation value, to illustrate how citizen science data can be utilized in telecoupling research to help inform conservation decisions.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Interactive National Virtual Water-Energy Nexus Networks

  Published on March 29, 2019

  We constructed and analyzed interprovincial virtual water and energy transfer networks, using China (the largest energy consumer and is undergoing severe water scarcity) as a demonstration.

• APPLIED ENERGY - Shift in a national virtual energy network

  Published on March 21, 2019

  The total virtual energy transferred from energy scarce to energy-abundant provinces increased from 43.2% to 47.5% from 2007 to 2012.

• 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.

• 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.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Toward rigorous telecoupling causal attribution: a systematic review and typology

  Published on November 27, 2018

  Systematic review of causal attribution in the telecoupling literature (n = 89 studies) and development of a standardized causal terminology and typology for consistent use in telecoupling research.