Telecoupling

• 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.

• SCIENCE CHINA - LIFE SCIENCES -- Conservation planning beyond giant pandas: the need for an innovative telecoupling framework

  Published on December 27, 2016
  A develop of innovative systems approaches that improve human well being while sustaining wildlife populations and their habitats.

• Acta Ecologica Sinica - 远程耦合世界的可持续性框架

  Published on November 24, 2016
  译自: Liu, J. et al. 2013. Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology and Society 18(2): 26.

• ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY -- New road for telecoupling global prosperity and ecological sustainability

  Published on November 4, 2016
  We apply the integrated framework of telecoupling and propose to enhance infrastructure connection, transboundary actions, scientific and cultural exchanges, and institutional innovations within the Belt and Road region.

• Urban water sustainability: framework and application

  Published on October 12, 2016
  Urban areas such as megacities (those with populations greater than 10 million) are hotspots of global water use and thus face intense water management challenges

• ENERGY -- Energy sustainability under the framework of telecoupling

  Published on April 5, 2016
  Telecouplings widely exist in energy systems with various forms and link energy sustainability of different countries closely, so we proposed some methods for energy sustainability analysis under the framework of telecoupling.