Telecoupling

Publications

• Telecoupled Impacts Of Livestock Trade On Non-communicable Diseases

  Published on July 24, 2019
  BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs)-chronic human health problems such as cardiovascular diseases linked to poor diets-are significant challenges for sustainable development and human health. The international livestock trade increases accessi...

• Telecoupled Sustainable Livelihoods In An Era Of Rural-urban Dynamics: The Case Of China

  Published on July 9, 2019
  Recently, increasingly sophisticated studies have investigated the relationship between agrarian livelihoods and the environment, as well as rural-urban interactions in developing countries. The policies developed to respond to these dynamics can con...

• A Novel Telecoupling Framework To Assess Social Relations Across Spatial Scales For Ecosystem Services Research

  Published on July 1, 2019
  Access to ecosystem services and influence on their management are structured by social relations among actors, which often occur across spatial scales. Such cross-scale social relations can be analysed through a telecoupling framework as decisions t...

• A Spatio-temporal Delineation Of Trans-boundary Ecosystem Service Flows From Inner Mongolia

  Published on June 14, 2019
  Ecosystem service (ES) flows across geophysical and administrative boundaries are ubiquitous and are receiving more attention in an increasingly metacoupled world. Omitting trans-boundary ES flows from ES assessments will lead to unilateral conclusio...

• A Multi-scale Analysis Of Interregional Sustainability: Applied To Israel's Food Supply

  Published on June 4, 2019
  Promoting sustainability in today's world requires an understanding of the environmental burdens and social impacts of one region's consumption on other regions, both adjacent and remote. In recent years a growing body of research has quantified inte...

• Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on June 3, 2019
  The increasing global interconnectivity influencing land system changebringswith it newchallengesforland-system science.We evaluate whether recentland-system science (LSS) research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities

• Assessing The Impact Of China's Timber Industry On Congo Basin Land Use Change

  Published on May 27, 2019
  Through the rise of global commodity chains, consumer demand in China and the USA has given rise to the extraction of natural resources in the Congo Basin. The Chinese market for high-valued animal products such as elephant ivory and pangolin scales ...

• 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.

• Eco-certification protocols as mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices in telecoupled systems

  Published on May 20, 2019
  This paper uses the telecoupling framework to investigate how distant systems are connected through flows of eco-certified forestry products and demonstrates how these connections drive environmental law compliance at the rural property level.

• 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

• Interdependencies And Telecoupling Of Oil Palm Expansion At The Expense Of Indonesian Rainforest

  Published on May 1, 2019
  Global palm oil production has greatly increased in recent years with the adoption of renewable energy policies by the E.U. and U.S.A. and growing demand for its use in food, biodiesel, and other commodities. Indonesia, the world's largest oil palm p...

• 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.

• Analyzing Requisition-compensation Balance Of Farmland Policy In China Through Telecoupling: A Case Study In The Middle Reaches Of Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations

  Published on April 18, 2019
  This study evaluates the requisition-compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy with the telecoupling framework of quantity-quality-productivity-ecological balance in the middle reaches of Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations (MRYRUA) in China from...

• 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.

• The Role Of Citizen Science In Conservation Under The Telecoupling Framework

  Published on April 3, 2019
  Citizen science is increasingly utilized to empower people to participate in conservation work and research. Despite the profusion of citizen science projects in conservation, many lacked a coherent analytical framework for understanding broad-scale ...

• 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.

• Smallholder Telecoupling And Climate Governance In Jambi Province, Indonesia

  Published on April 1, 2019
  Current debates on climate change have led to an increased demand for sustainable commodities. Serving this demand, sustainability certification schemes and eco-friendly labels have become prominent mechanisms of climate governance. Smallholder farme...

• 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.