Telecoupling

Publications

• Telecoupling Indirect Ecological Impacts Of Urban Expansion In China From The Perspective Of The Food Trade

  Published on July 21, 2023
  A comprehensive evaluation of the ecological cost of urban expansion is crucial for preventing ecosystem degradation and improving ecosystem governance. However, the indirect impacts of urban expansion through cropland displacement are grossly undere...

• Agroecological Transitions To Sustainability And Biosphere Reserves

  Published on July 14, 2023
  We examine the potential of local agroecological transitions to sustainability in Spain and their interaction with Biosphere Reserve (BR) designation. The BR program has experienced great success in Spain however questions linger regarding their cont...

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation

  Published on July 12, 2023
  Using data for soybean-producing municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, between 2004 and 2017, we evaluated the relationships between forest cover change and the annual soybean trade destination.

• Toward Spatial Fit In The Governance Of Global Commodity Flows

  Published on July 6, 2023
  Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or matc...

• Untangling The Coupling Relationships Between Socio-economy And Eco-environment In Arid Inland River Basin

  Published on July 1, 2023
  Water reallocation in arid inland river basins could influence the interactions between socio-economy and eco-environment. However, how these interactions are teleconnected among regions is often neglected. Here, we chose the Heihe River Basin, China...

• FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE - Toward a forest transition across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome

  Published on June 29, 2023
  Using land-use/cover (LULC) data, we assessed the loss and successive gain in forest cover during the 1987–2001 and 2001–2015 periods.

• Physical And Virtual Nutrient Flows In Global Telecoupled Agricultural Trade Networks

  Published on June 17, 2023
  This study identifies the flows of physical and virtual nutrients (N and P) within the global agricultural trade network by trade tracing, and explores strategies to improve global nutrient use efficiency using the telecoupling framework.Global agric...

• Leveraging The Metacoupling Framework For Sustainability Science And Global Sustainable Development

  Published on June 15, 2023
  Sustainability science seeks to understand human-nature interactions behind sustainability challenges, but has largely been place-based. Traditional sustainability efforts often solved problems in one place at the cost of other places, compromising g...

• NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW - Leveraging the metacoupling framework for sustainability science and global sustainable development

  Published on June 8, 2023
  The metacoupling framework offers a conceptual foundation and a holistic approach to integrating human–nature interactions within a place, as well as between adjacent places and between distant places worldwide.

• Broader Applicability Of The Metacoupling Framework Than Tobler's First Law Of Geography For Global Sustainability: A Systematic Review

  Published on May 28, 2023
  Complex sustainability issues in the Anthropocene, with rapid globalization and global environmental changes, are increasingly interlinked between not only nearby systems but also distant systems. Tobler's first law of geog-raphy (TFL) states near th...

• Remittances And Land Change: A Systematic Review

  Published on May 25, 2023
  Remittances-funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home-are an important source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and transformation of land systems. A number of published reviews have synthesized wor...

• NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Physical and virtual nutrient flows in global telecoupled agricultural trade networks

  Published on April 26, 2023
  We quantified the physical and virtual nitrogen and phosphorus flows embedded in the global agricultural trade networks from 1997 to 2016 and elaborated components of the telecoupling framework.

• Local And Tele-coupling Development Between Carbon Emission And Ecologic Environment Quality

  Published on April 22, 2023
  Carbon emissions (CE) have a profound impact on the natural environment of the surface, and the ecologic environment quality (EEQ) affects the conversion and absorption of CE. CE and EEQ have an interaction and mutual influence relationship. The conn...

• GEOGRAPHY AND SUSTAINABILITY - Broader applicability of the metacoupling framework than Tobler’s first law of geography for global sustainability: A systematic review

  Published on April 17, 2023
  We reviewed and synthesized sustainability literature that used Tobler’s first law of geography and framework of metacoupling across seven major topics: land change, species migration, tourism, trade, agricultural development, conservation, and governance.

• Global Gateways As Telecoupled Human And Natural Systems: The Emerging Case Of The Bering Strait

  Published on April 16, 2023
  Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human-nature interactions across distant re...

• Telecoupling China's City-level Water Withdrawal With Distant Consumption

  Published on April 2, 2023
  Trade causes the geospatial separation of production and consumption, which drives telecoupling between resource utilization and distant consumption. While benefiting the economy, trade can also exacerbate resource use inequality among regions. Here,...

• AMBIO - Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait

  Published on March 28, 2023
  We examine how three telecoupling processes (tourism, vessel traffic, and natural resource development) impact and are impacted by the coupled human and natural system of the Bering Strait Region.

• Regional Integration And Sustainable Development In The Yangtze River Delta, China: Towards A Conceptual Framework And Research Agenda

  Published on March 22, 2023
  Understanding the interactions between the human sphere and the natural sphere in key places and regions of the world is crucial for promoting sustainability science and achieving sustainable development. As one of the emerging global city-regions in...

• Governing Spillovers Of Agricultural Land Use Through Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Coverage Analysis Of Sustainability Requirements

  Published on February 25, 2023
  Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are prominent governance instruments that define and verify sus-tainable agricultural land use at farm and supply chain levels. However, agricultural production can prompt spillover dynamics with implications ...

• Agricultural Commercialization In Borderlands: Capturing The Transformation Of A Tropical Forest Frontier Through Participatory Mapping

  Published on February 15, 2023
  Forest-frontier landscapes in the humid tropics display distinct land use change dynamics compared to other world regions, providing useful examples of current global environmental and development challenges. In northwestern Laos, part of the former ...