Telecoupling

• 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.

• ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- Global relationships between biodiversity and nature-based tourism in protected areas

  Published on October 30, 2018
  We present results on the interplay between biodiversity conservation and nature-based tourism, while controlling for environmental and socioeconomic factors in and surrounding terrestrial PAs worldwide.

• ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES - China’s Environment on a Metacoupled Planet

  Published on October 19, 2018
  We suggest systems approaches such as nexus approaches and flow-centered governance to help China achieve ecological civilization and become an environmental leader on a metacoupled planet.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Network analysis as a tool for quantifying the dynamics of metacoupled systems: an example using global soybean trade

  Published on October 14, 2018
  Network analysis is a powerful and flexible tool that has been used to quantify social, economic, and ecological systems. We evaluate the utility of network analysis for quantifying metacoupled systems by assessing global soybean trade among 217 countries.

• JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES -- Spillover effect offsets the conservation effort in the Amazon

  Published on October 4, 2018
  We used the two supply-chain agreements implemented in the Amazon biome as examples and evaluated their spillover effects to the Cerrado.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Complex effects of natural disasters on protected areas through altered telecouplings

  Published on September 14, 2018
  With long-term data collected in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas, we applied the telecoupling framework to assess the effects of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on telecouplings that link Wolong with the rest of the world

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program

  Published on July 9, 2018
  This study highlights that local human–nature interactions driven by telecouplings, such as human–wildlife conflicts, may trigger feedbacks that affect telecouplings themselves.

• APPLIED GEOGRAPHY -- The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS application to systematically analyze telecouplings and sustainable development

  Published on May 16, 2018
  To operationalize the framework, we have developed the Telecoupling GeoApp, a new web-based component of the Telecoupling Toolbox that provides researchers and practitioners with a useful platform to address globally important issues.

• PNAS -- Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade

  Published on May 4, 2018
  Our study shows that international food trade can also lead to environmental pollution in importing countries.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Integration across a metacoupled world

  Published on November 26, 2017
  This paper presents an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling).

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Telecoupling Toolbox: spatially explicit tools for studying telecoupled human and natural systems

  Published on October 19, 2017
  We introduce the Telecoupling Toolbox, the first set of tools developed to map and identify the five major interrelated components of the telecoupling framework: systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects.

• SCIENCE -- A looming tragedy of the sand commons

  Published on September 5, 2017
  Between 1900 and 2010, the global volume of natural resources used in buildings and transport infrastructure increased 23 fold. Sand and gravel are the largest portion of these primary material inputs (79% or 28.6 Gigatons per year in 2010)

• LAND -- The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

  Published on August 31, 2017
  We use the telecoupling framework to analyze (i) the international trade dynamics between Brazil and China as the cause of the increased production of Brazilian soybean since 2000.

• FISHERIES -- The telecoupling framework: an integrative tool for enhancing fisheries management

  Published on August 12, 2017
  Apply the telecoupling framework to better understand the impacts of local and more distant socioeconomic and environmental interactions that alter fisheries productivity.

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS -- Climate variability and trends at a national scale

  Published on June 12, 2017
  Examining the daily minutia of climate, not just temperature, but also sunshine, precipitation and soil moisture simultaneously all over a country gives a better understanding of how variable a land’s climate can be.

• ELEMENTA - SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE -- Telecoupling framework for research on migratory species in the Anthropocene

  Published on March 6, 2017
  We apply the telecoupling framework to Kirtland’s warblers (Setophaga kirtlandii ), a conservation-reliant migratory songbird.

• JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE -- Telecoupled land-use changes in distant countries

  Published on February 16, 2017
  A study of the spatial attributes of soybean land changes within and among trading countries at the same time.