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  • AMBIO: Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world

    Published on August 23, 2022
    Global shocks, such as pandemics, are increasing in speed and reach, and new ways are required to reduce negative impacts

  • NATURE FOOD - International food trade benefits biodiversity and food security in low-income countries

    Published on May 12, 2022
    This study calculates food trade flows among high-hotspot, low-hotspot and non-hotspot countries, including high- and low-income ones, over 2000–2018.

  • Nature News & Views - We can have biodiversity and eat too

    Published on May 12, 2022
    Stuart Pimm of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment comments on Jack Liu and Min Gon Chung's Nature Food paper on the global food trade and biodiversity

  • AMBIO: The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability

    Published on March 30, 2022
    A synthesis of external influences analyzed in Arctic-coupled human and natural systems literature show the Arctic is affected by external influences, including global markets, climate change, governance, military security, and tourism.

  • NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses

    Published on March 24, 2022
    A correlational network approach and a global SDG database of 166 countries to analyze the evolution of SDG interactions along a progression of sustainable development measured by the SDG Index.

  • EARTH INTERACTIONS - Complex effects of telecouplings on forest dynamics: an agent-based modeling approach

    Published on January 1, 2022
    Developed an agent-based model and simulated the impacts of two globally common telecouplings, nature-based tourism and labor migration, on forest dynamics of a rural CHANS, China’s Wolong Nature Reserve (Wolong).

  • NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services

    Published on October 21, 2021
    Improved understand natural infrastructure's in urban water networks must underpin strategic decision-making to sustainably provide freshwater ecosystem services to global cities.

  • ONE EARTH - Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene

    Published on May 21, 2021
    The unexamined true costs of sand – broadly, construction has spurred a group of scientists to call for a stronger focus on understanding the physical dimension of sand use and extraction.

  • 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.

  • SUSTAINABILITY -- Through the Lens of Telecoupling and Metacoupling: New Perspectives for Global Sustainability

    Published on March 9, 2021
    An editorial reviewing the contributions and impacts of telecoupling and metacoupling.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Published on January 10, 2021
    Introduced a new theoretical framework and develop a general procedure of applying the framework to empirically evaluate SDG synergies and tradeoffs within and across boundaries, based on the concept of metacoupling.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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