Telecoupling

Publications

• Resources Time Footprint For Assessment Of Human Influence On Ecosystem Service From A Sustainability Standpoint

  Published on March 4, 2024
  Nature provides diverse services to humanity, known as ecosystem services (ES), yet certain services, such as food and timber, are geographically distant from human settlements. This spatial separation of ES from supply area to demand site fosters tr...

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity

  Published on March 1, 2024
  We simulated the global cropland expansion provoked by the reshaping of international virtual cropland flows under different war scenarios and conducted a biodiversity impact assessment.

• The Role Of Nature's Contributions To People In Sustaining International Trade Of Agricultural Products

  Published on February 27, 2024
  Nature's contributions to people (NCP) are essential for the production and trade of agricultural, forestry and fishery commodities. Often, there is a spatial disconnect between consumers and the natural systems where the commodities are produced. Tr...

• JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Pathways for achieving conservation targets under metacoupled anthropogenic disturbances

  Published on February 27, 2024
  We endeavored to model the connectivity between protected areas in rapidly urbanizing regions in China, drawing on insights from the framework of metacoupling based on connected corridors at short and long distances.

• Zoning For The Sustainable Development Mode Of Global Social-ecological Systems: From The Supply-production-demand Perspective

  Published on February 24, 2024
  Telecoupling among social-ecological systems poses a significant challenge to achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Anthropocene. This article focuses on the fact that international trade has separated the production and consumption p...

• Multi-scale Telecoupling Effects Of Land Use Change On Ecosystem Services In Urban Agglomerations A Case Study In The Middle Reaches Of Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations

  Published on February 4, 2024
  A systematic understanding of the influences of land use change/land cover change (LUCC) on ecosystem services (ES) is significant for maintaining sustainable development of ecosystems. Previous studies on the effects of LUCC on ES have been discusse...

• NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Global transboundary synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals from an integrated sustainability perspective

  Published on January 13, 2024
  This study quantified the transboundary interactions between 768 pairs of SDG indicators. The results showed that high income countries comprised 14.18% of the global population, but contributed to total SDG interactions worldwide (60.60%).

• JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION - Building smallholder-adapted climate-resilient systems: Evidence from China's apple farms

  Published on January 5, 2024
  We developed a smallholder-adapted climate-resilient system (SA-CRS) conceptual framework and applied this in an empirical assessment of the adaptation of smallholder apple farmers (SAFs) to the risk of low temperature during flowering (LTF) in China

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses

  Published on January 4, 2024
  We identify commonly used sharing approaches, illustrate ten principles of translation and present a protocol involving key building blocks and control steps in translation.

• Leverage Points For Tackling Unsustainable Global Value Chains: Market-based Measures Versus Transformative Alternatives

  Published on December 17, 2023
  Tropical forests are rapidly disappearing due to the expansion of cash crops to meet demands from distant markets. Pressing concerns on deforestation impacts resulting from the global trade of tropical commodities have led some high-income countries'...

• Understanding And Achieving Sustainable Consumption: Integrating International Political Economy And Psychology Perspectives

  Published on December 17, 2023
  The concept of sustainable consumption has gained significant attention in international policy discussions. In order to achieve sustainable consumption, it is essential to thoroughly comprehend the underlying causes of current unsustainable consumpt...

• Biodiversity Loss Through Cropland Displacement For Urban Expansion In China

  Published on December 6, 2023
  As a result of rapid economic development, urban expansion reduced the cropland in China. To secure the food supply, cropland displacement to maintain the quantity and quality of cropland has been implemented. Here, we quantified the biodiversity los...

• Telecoupled Urban Demand From West African Cities Causes Social-ecological Land Use Transformation In Saharan Oases

  Published on November 30, 2023
  Little is known about the long-distance telecoupling effects of urban food demands on land use changes (LUCs) in remote oases of the Southern Sahara. Using the example of two typical oasis settlements on Mont Bagzam in the southern Ar Mountains of Ni...

• 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…