Telecoupling

Publications

• SUSTAINABILITY - Sustainability Evaluation on the Grain to Green Program in the Hexi Corridor of China: A Metacoupled System Perspective

  Published on February 1, 2021
  Establishing a metacoupled model to quantitatively evaluate aspects of ecosystem sustainability in China, providing insight to the theory and application of sustainability science.

• FRONTIERS OF ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems

  Published on February 1, 2021
  In other words, all that’s local is a lot more global, and the scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away.

• FRONTIERS OF ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - The evolution of macrosystems biology

  Published on February 1, 2021
  Analyses indicates that macrosystems biology emphasizes large scales, has deep roots in ecological disciplines, and may emerge as a new research frontier, but this last point has yet to be proven.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Spatial variation and influencing factors of the effectiveness of afforestation in China's Loess Plateau

  Published on January 29, 2021
  Results suggest ways to improve af- forestation design and implementation.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world

  Published on January 10, 2021
  Introduced a new theoretical framework and develop a general procedure of applying the framework to empirically evaluate SDG synergies and tradeoffs within and across boundaries, based on the concept of metacoupling.

• Synergies And Tradeoffs Among Sustainable Development Goals Across Boundaries In A Metacoupled World

  Published on December 16, 2020
  Synergies and tradeoffs among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within specific locations have been widely studied. However, there is little understanding of SDG synergies and tradeoffs across spatial/administrative boundaries a...

• Acta Geographica Sinica - 人类世可持续发展背景下的远程耦合框架及其应用

  Published on November 25, 2020
  地理学报 第75卷 第11期

• Metacoupled Tourism And Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies And Trade-offs Among Sustainable Development Goals Across Spillover Systems

  Published on November 17, 2020
  Synergies and trade-offs among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been hotly debated. Although the world is increasingly metacoupled (socioeconomic-environmental interactions within and across adjacent or distant systems), t...

• NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across 2 metacoupled systems

  Published on November 17, 2020
  Understanding irrigated agriculture's impact on the food-energy-water-CO2 nexus

• Three Decades Of Land-use And Land-cover Change In Mountain Regions Of The Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  Published on November 10, 2020
  Mountain regions are key hotspots for biodiversity conservation and for provisioning ecosystem services. Containing fragile ecosystems and home to millions of inhabitants, mountains are also places of great value for tourism, cultural practices and e...

• Integration Of A Local Fish Market In Namibia With The Global Seafood Trade: Implications For Fish Traders And Sustainability

  Published on November 1, 2020
  Within the last decades, globalization has changed the international seafood trade, allowing low-income countries to access markets in high-income countries and vice versa. Nevertheless, the effects of globalization are controversial and in particula...

• INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY -- Telecoupling

  Published on October 29, 2020
  The telecoupling entry gives background on the concept, illustrates the framework that helps understand telecoupling, and provides example applications of the concept and framework

• South American Camelids: Their Values And Contributions To People

  Published on October 26, 2020
  South American Camelids (SACs) make several material and non-material contributions to people and are a key component of the Andean biocultural heritage. From the perspective of the IPBES' Conceptual Framework, SACs constitute the nature component in...

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

  Published on October 7, 2020
  Researchers combined network modeling and cluster analysis to simultaneously identify the structural changes in meat trade networks and the factors that influence the networks themselves

• Landscape Matters: Insights From The Impact Of Mega-droughts On Colombia's Energy Transition

  Published on September 30, 2020
  Mega-droughts can cause disruption to the affected society sparking a transition. We explore the causes and effects of the 2015-2016 mega-drought in Colombia. Using the multi-level perspective as a framework, we found that the mega-drought sparked an...

• Alleviating Water Scarcity And Poverty In Drylands Through Telecouplings: Vegetable Trade And Tourism In Northwest China

  Published on September 28, 2020
  Water scarcity and poverty are among the most significant global challenges, especially in the world's arid re-gions. Many countries have been trying to address these challenges. Facilitated by the construction of infrastruc-ture (e.g., high-speed ra...

• A Higher Level Of Civilization? The Transformation Of Ny-alesund From Arctic Coalmining Settlement In Svalbard To Global Environmental Knowledge Center

  Published on September 22, 2020
  This article provides an historical account and analysis of the repurposing of Ny-Alesund from Arctic coalmining settlement to Norwegian-administered international research base in Svalbard. Three levels of analysis are employed to explain the settle...

• SUSTAINABILITY - Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems

  Published on September 17, 2020
  We used a new integrated framework to guide SDG synergy and trade-off analysis within and across systems, as influenced by cross-boundary tourism and wildlife translocations.

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world

  Published on September 3, 2020
  Understanding SDG synergies and tradeoffs across spatial/administrative boundaries using the metacoupling framework using tourism and panda loans as an example.

• Climate Change, Tropical Fisheries And Prospects For Sustainable Development

  Published on September 1, 2020
  Tropical fisheries substantially contribute to the well-being of societies in both the tropics and the extratropics, the latter through 'telecoupling' - linkages between distant human-natural systems. Tropical marine habitats and fish stocks, however...