Telecoupling

Publications

• 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.

• Sustainable Minerals Extraction For Electric Vehicles: A Pilot Study Of Consumers' Perceptions Of Impacts

  Published on February 6, 2022
  Global transitions to electric vehicles (EVs) have triggered a surge in demand for the required minerals, whose extraction impacts raise questions on the overall sustainability of EVs. The impacts of mineral extraction are usually invisible to consum...

• Critical Minerals For Electric Vehicles: A Telecoupling Review

  Published on January 19, 2022
  The rapid growth of electric vehicles adoption, which plays a crucial role to reduce transportation carbon emissions, is leading to a surge in demand for critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, and rare earths. Efforts to systematically ad...

• Complex Regional Telecoupling Between People And Nature Revealed Via Quantification Of Trans-boundary Ecosystem Service Flows

  Published on January 14, 2022
  Quantifying and mapping trans-boundary ecosystem service (ES) flows can help identify dependencies and responsibilities for promoting economic development and environmental sustainability between nations, but few studies have focused on ES flows b…

• Water Use In Human Civilizations: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of A Perpetual Social-ecological Challenge

  Published on January 12, 2022
  Since the onset of human societies, settlement patterns and social structures have been shaped by access to water. This review covers historical and recent examples from Cambodia, Central Asia, India, Latin America and the Arabian Peninsula to analyz...

• The Geography Of International Conservation Interest In South American Deforestation Frontiers

  Published on January 12, 2022
  International funding is increasingly important in supporting conservation in mega-biodiverse countries. However, it remains unclear which donors invest in which conservation objectives and where, making it difficult to identify gaps and key actors t...

• Perspectives On Tipping Points In Integrated Models Of The Natural And Human Earth System: Cascading Effects And Telecoupling

  Published on January 11, 2022
  The Earth system and the human system are intrinsically linked. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have led to the climate crisis, which is causing unprecedented extreme events and could trigger Earth system tipping elements. Physical and social ...

• The Telecoupling Approach To The Global Food System And Climate Change Regime: The Pivotal Role Of Brazil And China.

  Published on January 1, 2022
  The global food system and the climate change regime deal with highly complex natural and social issues. Despite some advances in both systems, the world and its population face existential threats as poverty and hunger are not eradicated, and advers...