Telecoupling

Publications

• Bioengineering, Telecoupling, And Alternative Dairy: Agricultural Land Use Futures In The Anthropocene

  Published on July 14, 2021
  The global environmental impact of rising consumption of animal products presents significant challenges to sustainable land use. One alternative to the production of animal products is a set of technologies for culturing meat and dairy alternatives ...

• Assessing The Contribution Of Mobility In The European Union To Rubber Expansion

  Published on July 1, 2021
  Nearly three-quarters of global natural rubber production is used to produce tyres, supporting mobility around the globe. The projected increase in mobility could contribute to further expansion of rubber plantations and impact tropical ecosystems. W...

• Tracing Austria's Biomass Consumption To Source Countries: A Product-level Comparison Between Bioenergy, Food And Material

  Published on June 11, 2021
  Global biomass trade has risen sharply in recent decades. This development was accompanied by increasing concerns about adverse environmental impacts in exporting countries. In Austria, strong preference for food and bioenergy from domestic sources i...

• Modelling Drivers Of Brazilian Agricultural Change In A Telecoupled World

  Published on May 22, 2021
  Increasing global demand for agricultural commodities has driven local land use/cover change (LUCC) and agricultural production across Brazil during the 21st century. Modelling tools are needed to help understand the range of possible outcomes due to...

• ONE EARTH - Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene

  Published on May 21, 2021
  The unexamined true costs of sand – broadly, construction has spurred a group of scientists to call for a stronger focus on understanding the physical dimension of sand use and extraction.

• Telecoupling Cropland Soil Erosion With Distant Drivers Within China

  Published on May 16, 2021
  Soil erosion on cropland is a result of the interaction between nature and human activities. The socioeconomic influencing factors of soil erosion have been less studied than the biophysical processes and previous studies have mainly focused on the i...

• Exploring The Coupling Relationship Of Stormwater Runoff Distribution In Watershed From The Perspective Of Fairness

  Published on April 5, 2021
  Urbanization and climate change have led to a large number of stormwater runoff issues. How to deal with stormwater runoff is not only affected by local factors, but also by the surrounding land consumption. Therefore, it becomes particularly difficu...

• Spatial Differentiation Of Cultivated Land Use Intensification In Village Settings: A Survey Of Typical Chinese Villages

  Published on April 3, 2021
  The intensified use of cultivated land is essential for optimizing crop planting practices and protecting food security. This study employed a telecoupling framework to evaluate the cultivated land use intensification rates in typical Chinese village...

• Through The Lens Of Telecoupling And Metacoupling: New Perspectives For Global Sustainability

  Published on March 28, 2021
  Through The Lens Of Telecoupling And Metacoupling: New Perspectives For Global Sustainability

• Coordinated Intensification To Reconcile The 'zero Hunger ' And 'life On Land ' Sustainable Development Goals

  Published on March 25, 2021
  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) encourage nations to substantially increase food production to achieve zero hunger (SDG 2) while preserving life on land (SDG 15). A key question is how to reconcile these potentially competing goals spatially...

• Mediterranean Landscape Re-greening At The Expense Of South American Agricultural Expansion

  Published on March 18, 2021
  The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their import...

• AMBIO - Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework

  Published on March 16, 2021
  An intived “Behind the Paper” reflection on the paper by Liu et al. 2007 Ambio, one of the “most influential papers in the past 50 years” since the first issue of Ambio, a Journal of Environment and Society, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Through the Lens of Telecoupling and Metacoupling: New Perspectives for Global Sustainability

  Published on March 8, 2021
  An editorial reviewing the contributions and impacts of telecoupling and metacoupling.

• Modernization Of Artisanal Fishing Communities On Andros Island, The Bahamas, As A Treadmill Of Production

  Published on March 5, 2021
  Globalization and modernization have driven drastic changes in communities dependent on natural resources. Yet the impacts on resources and local well-being vary widely, with positive outcomes often linked to ecological modernization theory and negat...

• Achieving Win-win Solutions In Telecoupled Human-land Systems

  Published on March 1, 2021
  Telecoupling refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant places. Telecoupling is becoming even more significant in the increasingly globalized world and it plays a key role in the emergence of major global environmental pro...

• Sustainability Evaluation On The Grain To Green Program In The Hexi Corridor Of China: A Metacoupled System Perspective

  Published on February 26, 2021
  Most previous studies aim to predict ecosystem sustainability from the perspective of a sole human or natural system and have frequently failed to achieve their desired outcome. Based on the coupled human and natural system (CHANS) and its interactio...

• Does Agricultural Trade Reduce Pressure On Land Ecosystems? Decomposing Drivers Of The Embodied Human Appropriation Of Net Primary Production

  Published on February 9, 2021
  Agriculture contributes to deforestation and the conversion of other terrestrial ecosystems, affecting important ecosystem functions. A growing share of the produced agricultural commodities is traded between countries. It is widely assumed that inte...

• Governing Global Telecoupling Toward Environmental Sustainability

  Published on February 9, 2021
  Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, but that arise because of specific linkages between distal regions. Such telecoupled i...

• Telecoupling Visualizations Through A Network Lens: A Systematic Review

  Published on February 9, 2021
  Telecoupling is an integrative social-ecological framework that has made important contributions to understanding land change processes in a hyperconnected world. Visualizations are a powerful tool to communicate knowledge about telecoupling phenomen...

• Ecological Restoration Is Not Sufficient For Reconciling The Trade-off Between Soil Retention And Water Yield: A Contrasting Study From Catchment Governance Perspective

  Published on February 1, 2021
  Ecological restoration program (ERP) is widely recognized as an effective measure to combat land degradation and improve environmental quality. However, inappropriate ERPs lead to trade-offs between soil retention and water yield as well as conflicts...