Telecoupling

Publications

• AMBIO: Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world

  Published on August 23, 2022
  Global shocks, such as pandemics, are increasing in speed and reach, and new ways are required to reduce negative impacts

• Telecoupling As A Framework To Support A More Nuanced Understanding Of Causality In Land System Science

  Published on August 18, 2022
  This article illustrates the potential of the telecoupling framework to improve causal attribution in land system science (LSS). We shed light on the distinct analytical approaches that have characterized telecoupling research to date, how these can ...

• Urban Land Teleconnections In The United States: A Graphical Network Approach

  Published on August 5, 2022
  Cities influence land use change on neighboring and distal areas through sociopolitical or infrastructural connections between urban and non-urban regions, termed teleconnections. While teleconnections are generally recognized as important to land co...

• Environmental Governance In Globally Telecoupled Systems: Mapping The Terrain Towards An Integrated Research Agenda

  Published on July 20, 2022
  Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical pers...

• Bringing States Back Into Commodity-centric Environmental Governance: The Telecoupled Soy Trade Between Brazil And China

  Published on June 29, 2022
  Brazil and China share important vantage points in environmental fora, actively coordinating their positions within Brazil, South Africa, India, and China (BASIC) and Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). Both countries have incorpo...

• More Than Ponds Amid Skyscrapers: Urban Fisheries As Multiscalar Human-natural Systems

  Published on June 29, 2022
  Although social-ecological fisheries research is growing, comparatively little attention is paid to fisheries in urban environments. We aim to address this imbalance, because as cities expand worldwide, we expect urban fisheries to become more widesp...

• How Are Institutions Included In Integrated Conservation And Development Projects? Developing And Testing A Diagnostic Approach On The World Bank's Forest And Community Project

  Published on June 22, 2022
  The opportunities and challenges of ensuring participation and success of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have been fairly studied. However, it is not often well-established which institutional mechanisms explain the failure ...

• How Far Are We From Possible Ideal Virtual Water Transfer? Evidence From Assessing Vulnerability Of Global Virtual Water Trade

  Published on June 17, 2022
  With the increasing contradiction between water demand and supply in a telecoupled society where nature and human interplay intensively over distance, virtual water trade (VWT) plays an indispensable role in global water use sustainability. There has...

• The Intertemporal Governance Challenges Of Brazil's Amazon: Managing Soybean Expansion, Deforestation Rates, And Urban Floods

  Published on June 15, 2022
  The Brazilian Amazon faces three dominant governance challenges that have become increasingly interconnected over time and now affect each other: managing agricultural expansion, reducing deforestation, and mitigating urban floods. This region exempl...

• Carbon Emissions Of The Tourism Telecoupling System: Theoretical Framework, Model Specification And Synthesis Effects

  Published on June 7, 2022
  The flows of people and material attributed to international tourism exert a major impact on the global environment. Tourism carbon emissions is the main indicator in this context. However, previous studies focused on estimating the emissions of dest...

• Globalized Supply Chains: Emergent Telecouplings In Mexico's Beef Economy And Environmental Leakages

  Published on June 5, 2022
  This article analyzes how trade liberalization in Mexico, particularly following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), has transformed that nation's cattle economy into a feedlot system manifesting multiple telecouplings and based on the t...

• Agricultural Trade And Its Impacts On Cropland Use And The Global Loss Of Species Habitat

  Published on May 23, 2022
  Agricultural expansion and intensification are threatening biodiversity worldwide, and future expansion of agricultural land will exacerbate this trend. One of the main drivers of this expansion is an increasingly global trade of agricultural produce...

• NATURE FOOD - International food trade benefits biodiversity and food security in low-income countries

  Published on May 12, 2022
  This study calculates food trade flows among high-hotspot, low-hotspot and non-hotspot countries, including high- and low-income ones, over 2000–2018.

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  Nature News & Views - We can have biodiversity and eat too

  Published on May 12, 2022
  Stuart Pimm of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment comments on Jack Liu and Min Gon Chung's Nature Food paper on the global food trade and biodiversity

• Vulnerability To Food Insecurity In A Telecoupled World: Insights From Vanuatu

  Published on April 24, 2022
  Food insecurity is a pressing problem in many regions across the world. Drivers of food insecurity are becoming increasingly embedded in sociocultural and economic processes that transcendent multiple spatial and temporal scales. This is due to the i...

• The Metacoupled Arctic: Human-nature Interactions Across Local To Global Scales As Drivers Of Sustainability

  Published on April 12, 2022
  The Arctic is an epicenter of complex environmental and socioeconomic change. Strengthened connections between Arctic and non-Arctic systems could threaten or enhance Arctic sustainability, but studies of external influences on the Arctic are scatter...

• Mitigating Displaced Land Degradation And The Risk Of Spillover Through The Decommoditization Of Land Products

  Published on April 7, 2022
  Land degradation impacts human well-being and biodiversity while increasing exposure to emerging infectious diseases. The primary indirect driver of land degradation is consumption, which increasingly involves agricultural products produced far away....

• AMBIO: The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability

  Published on March 30, 2022
  A synthesis of external influences analyzed in Arctic-coupled human and natural systems literature show the Arctic is affected by external influences, including global markets, climate change, governance, military security, and tourism.

• Multi-regional Land Disturbances Induced By Mineral Use In A Product-based Approach: A Case Study Of Gasoline, Hybrid, Battery Electric And Fuel Cell Vehicle Production In Japan

  Published on March 25, 2022
  Resource use in the country of final demand has severe environmental impacts in other distant countries and regions through resource exploitation. In the narrative of telecoupling, the land disturbance caused by economy-wide international trade has b...

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY - Decoupling of SDGs followed by re-coupling as sustainable development progresses

  Published on March 24, 2022
  A correlational network approach and a global SDG database of 166 countries to analyze the evolution of SDG interactions along a progression of sustainable development measured by the SDG Index.