Telecoupling

Telecoupling Stories

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  Striving and stumbling towards sustainability amongst pandas and people

  Published on September 3, 2020
  Understanding how achieving one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals spins off more SDG success – or sabotages progress on another goal across spatial and administrative boundaries.

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  Well-off countries need trade to cut environmental woes

  Published on July 13, 2020
  A first analysis of its kind shows a common problem between haves and have-nots. Trading internationally was generally good for developed countries but resulted in environmental losses for developing countries.

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  Small farmers sink or swim in globalization’s tsunami

  Published on February 24, 2020
  From a synthesis of 12 cases, researchers found when smallholder farmers are connected to faraway systems, the key is to empower them to higher agency and more livelihood opportunities.

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  Transformative change can save humans and nature

  Published on December 12, 2019
  International sustainability experts, including MSU's Jianguo "Jack" Liu, outline what's needed how the human/nature balance must change.