Telecoupling

Publications

• Measuring The Cross-border Spillover Effects And Telecoupling Processes Of Ecosystem Services In Western China

  Published on November 17, 2023
  Ecosystem services provide the basic elements for global economic development. In the context of the deepening global integration process, countries and regions are increasingly connected, resulting in a series of crosscountry, cross-regional, multi-...

• Transboundary Flows In The Metacoupled Anthropocene: Typology, Methods, And Governance For Global Sustainability

  Published on October 12, 2023
  The world has become increasingly metacoupled through flows of materials, energy, people, capital, and information within and across systems. Transboundary flows, connecting adjacent and distant systems, are deemed the most critical indicators for me...

• Advancing Recognition Justice In Telecoupled Critical Mineral Supply Chains: The Promise Of Social Media

  Published on October 4, 2023
  Electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies are increasingly scrutinized for the injustices they impose on critical-mineral mining communities. Injustices arise because local communities that are disproportionately affected by mining are mate...

• Mapping Fine-resolution Nested Social-ecological System Archetypes To Reveal Archetypical Human-environmental Interactions

  Published on September 28, 2023
  Scaling up case-based knowledge to understand human-environmental interactions is key to addressing the sustainability challenges we face in the Anthropocene. Mapping social-ecological system (SES) archetypes has emerged as a promising tool in identi...

• Global Shocks, Cascading Disruptions, And Re-connections: Viewing The Covid-19 Pandemic As Concurrent Natural Experiments To Understand Land System Dynamics

  Published on September 12, 2023
  ContextFor nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human well-being and livelihoods, communities, and economies in myriad ways with consequences for social-ecological systems across the planet. The pandemic represents a global shock i...

• Impactos Ambientais Dos Teleacoplamentos Do Sistema De Consumo Urbano De Alimentos Orgânicos

  Published on September 2, 2023
  Abstract The environmental impacts of the food system, especially the distances covered, are not clear to the final consumer. The aim was to evaluate and calculate the urban telecoupling and the environmental impacts and calculate the energy consumpt...

• Drivers Of Ecosystem Service Specialization In A Smallholder Agricultural Landscape Of The Global South: A Case Study In Ethiopia

  Published on August 1, 2023
  The global shift toward agricultural specialization in the 20th century led to unprecedented ecological and socioeconomic changes, both positive and negative, in rural landscapes. Economic theory describes comparative advantage and market participa…

• Telecoupling Indirect Ecological Impacts Of Urban Expansion In China From The Perspective Of The Food Trade

  Published on July 21, 2023
  A comprehensive evaluation of the ecological cost of urban expansion is crucial for preventing ecosystem degradation and improving ecosystem governance. However, the indirect impacts of urban expansion through cropland displacement are grossly undere...

• Agroecological Transitions To Sustainability And Biosphere Reserves

  Published on July 14, 2023
  We examine the potential of local agroecological transitions to sustainability in Spain and their interaction with Biosphere Reserve (BR) designation. The BR program has experienced great success in Spain however questions linger regarding their cont...

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation

  Published on July 12, 2023
  Using data for soybean-producing municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, between 2004 and 2017, we evaluated the relationships between forest cover change and the annual soybean trade destination.

• Toward Spatial Fit In The Governance Of Global Commodity Flows

  Published on July 6, 2023
  Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or matc...

• Untangling The Coupling Relationships Between Socio-economy And Eco-environment In Arid Inland River Basin

  Published on July 1, 2023
  Water reallocation in arid inland river basins could influence the interactions between socio-economy and eco-environment. However, how these interactions are teleconnected among regions is often neglected. Here, we chose the Heihe River Basin, China...

• FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE - Toward a forest transition across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome

  Published on June 29, 2023
  Using land-use/cover (LULC) data, we assessed the loss and successive gain in forest cover during the 1987–2001 and 2001–2015 periods.

• Physical And Virtual Nutrient Flows In Global Telecoupled Agricultural Trade Networks

  Published on June 17, 2023
  This study identifies the flows of physical and virtual nutrients (N and P) within the global agricultural trade network by trade tracing, and explores strategies to improve global nutrient use efficiency using the telecoupling framework.Global agric...

• Leveraging The Metacoupling Framework For Sustainability Science And Global Sustainable Development

  Published on June 15, 2023
  Sustainability science seeks to understand human-nature interactions behind sustainability challenges, but has largely been place-based. Traditional sustainability efforts often solved problems in one place at the cost of other places, compromising g...

• NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW - Leveraging the metacoupling framework for sustainability science and global sustainable development

  Published on June 8, 2023
  The metacoupling framework offers a conceptual foundation and a holistic approach to integrating human–nature interactions within a place, as well as between adjacent places and between distant places worldwide.

• Broader Applicability Of The Metacoupling Framework Than Tobler's First Law Of Geography For Global Sustainability: A Systematic Review

  Published on May 28, 2023
  Complex sustainability issues in the Anthropocene, with rapid globalization and global environmental changes, are increasingly interlinked between not only nearby systems but also distant systems. Tobler's first law of geog-raphy (TFL) states near th...

• Remittances And Land Change: A Systematic Review

  Published on May 25, 2023
  Remittances-funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home-are an important source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and transformation of land systems. A number of published reviews have synthesized wor...

• NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Physical and virtual nutrient flows in global telecoupled agricultural trade networks

  Published on April 26, 2023
  We quantified the physical and virtual nitrogen and phosphorus flows embedded in the global agricultural trade networks from 1997 to 2016 and elaborated components of the telecoupling framework.

• Local And Tele-coupling Development Between Carbon Emission And Ecologic Environment Quality

  Published on April 22, 2023
  Carbon emissions (CE) have a profound impact on the natural environment of the surface, and the ecologic environment quality (EEQ) affects the conversion and absorption of CE. CE and EEQ have an interaction and mutual influence relationship. The conn...