Telecoupling

Publications

• JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE - Land-use changes across distant places: design of a telecoupled agent-based model

  Published on November 18, 2019
  We apply the framework to design an agent-based model (TeleABM) that represents land-use changes in telecoupled systems to investigate how local land-use changes are affected by flows. The Brazil–China telecoupled soybean system is used as a demonstration.

• GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH - Telecoupled impacts of livestock trade on non-communicable diseases

  Published on August 1, 2019
  LIvestock consumption through livestock import increased diet-related NCD risks.

• Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on June 3, 2019
  The increasing global interconnectivity influencing land system changebringswith it newchallengesforland-system science.We evaluate whether recentland-system science (LSS) research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities

• SUSTAINABILITY - Telecoupled Food Trade Affects Pericoupled Trade and Intracoupled Production

  Published on May 22, 2019
  The extent to which the telecoupled food trade affected the pericoupled trade and intracoupled processes holds implications for the true extent of production driven by distant demands.

• Eco-certification protocols as mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices in telecoupled systems

  Published on May 20, 2019
  This paper uses the telecoupling framework to investigate how distant systems are connected through flows of eco-certified forestry products and demonstrates how these connections drive environmental law compliance at the rural property level.

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH - International Tourism Dynamics in a Globalized World: A Social Network Analysis Approach

  Published on May 16, 2019
  Global tourism networks have become highly consolidated over time and that reduced transaction costs (e.g., language, distance, and visa policies) are more important in attracting international tourists than natural and cultural attractions.

• EXPLORING LAND USE CHANGE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (Book chapter) What is Telecoupling?

  Published on May 5, 2019
  Book chapter -- preview of first 20 pages

• CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRO SUSTAINABILITY - Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on May 1, 2019
  We evaluate whether recent land-system science research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities for addressing sustainability in coupled human-natural systems.

• ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS - Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows

  Published on April 14, 2019
  We compile different indicators for assessing interregional ES flows and evaluate their suitability for national and regional ES assessments.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- The Role of Citizen Science in Conservation under the Telecoupling Framework

  Published on April 2, 2019
  We use the monarch butterfly, a migratory species of high conservation value, to illustrate how citizen science data can be utilized in telecoupling research to help inform conservation decisions.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Interactive National Virtual Water-Energy Nexus Networks

  Published on March 29, 2019
  We constructed and analyzed interprovincial virtual water and energy transfer networks, using China (the largest energy consumer and is undergoing severe water scarcity) as a demonstration.

• 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.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability

  Published on December 16, 2018
  We synthesized the articles by describing eight overarching lessons learned.

• 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.