Telecoupling

• 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.

• WATER INTERNATIONAL -- Telecoupling in urban water systems: an examination of Beijing's imported water supply

  Published on December 3, 2015
  We apply the new telecoupling framework to the water-stressed megacity of Beijing’s imported water supply.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

  Published on October 1, 2015
  Even a protected area like the Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas in southwest China has multiple telecoupling processes with the rest of the world.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Synthesis of human-nature feedbacks

  Published on September 11, 2015
  In an introduction to the special feature, we provide an overview of CHANS feedbacks. In addition, we synthesize key CHANS feedbacks that emerged in the papers across agricultural, forest, and urban landscapes.

• SCIENCE -- Systems integration for global sustainability

  Published on February 27, 2015
  Systems integration—holistic approaches to integrating various components of coupled human and natural systems—is critical to understand socioeconomic and environmental interconnections and to create sustainability solutions.

• RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE IN AN URBAN ERA - Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change

  Published on April 22, 2014
  Land systems are increasingly infl uenced by distal connections: the externalities and unintended consequences of social and ecological processes which occur in distant locations

• RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE (BOOK CHAPTER) -- Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science

  Published on April 22, 2014
  Over the past two decades, progress has been made in understanding and predicting land-use change in specifi c places, using frameworks such as coupled human-natural systems, coupled human-environmental systems, or coupled social-ecological systems

• ASIA AND THE PACIFIC POLICY STUDIES -- Forest Sustainability in China and Implications for a Telecoupled World

  Published on December 19, 2013
  Using the framework of telecoupling we found that China’s forest cover increase is affected by multiple telecoupling processes and their interactions with each other and with other factors.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

  Published on June 21, 2013
  We propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances.