Telecoupling

Publications

• 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...

• Complexity Of The Socio-ecological Dynamics In Hong Ha Commune In The Vietnamese Highland-a Review Through The Coupled Human And Natural Systems Framework

  Published on August 26, 2020
  In Vietnam, government policies have led to improvements in the national forest cover and poverty situation. However, numerous recent case studies in the Vietnamese highland found that socio-ecological dynamics were highly complex on a local scale, r...

• Influence Of Human-water Interactions On The Water Resources And Environment In The Yangtze River Basin From The Perspective Of Multiplex Networks

  Published on August 6, 2020
  Coupled human and natural system research is an urgent issue in the Anthropocene. However, this has not yet been conducted from the perspective of multiplex networks, which are a powerful tool to elucidate the interactions in human-natural systems. T...

• Environmental Governance Of China's Belt And Road Initiative

  Published on July 22, 2020
  China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is rapidly subsuming much of China's political and economic involvement abroad. As a far-reaching infrastructure development and investment strategy, officially involving more than 130 countri...

• Telecoupling Mechanism Of Urban Land Expansion Based On Transportation Accessibility: A Case Study Of Transitional Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

  Published on July 14, 2020
  Several studies have explored the drivers of urban land expansion (ULE), but disregarded the influence of distant spatial effect on ULE at a large regional scale. This study contributed to a tele-coupling relationship framework between spatial spillo...

• NATURE SUSTAINABILITY -- Impacts of International Trade on Achieving Global Sustainable Development Goals

  Published on July 13, 2020
  International trade positively affected global progress towards seven environment-related SDGs. International trade improved SDG scores of most evaluated developed countries but reduced the SDG scores of over 60% of the evaluated developing countries

• PEOPLE AND NATURE - Levers and leverage points to sustainability

  Published on July 1, 2020
  Applying a social–ecological systems lens, we identified eight priority points for intervention (leverage points) and five overarching strategic actions and priority interventions (levers), which appear to be key to societal transformation

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Alleviating water scarcity and poverty in drylands through telecouplings: Vegetable trade and tourism in northwest China

  Published on June 26, 2020
  Water scarcity evaluated using a composite index that considered both water resources and poverty and assessed the effects of the vegetable trade and tourism on water scarcity and income.

• Global Marine Fishing Across Space And Time

  Published on June 1, 2020
  Human health and livelihoods are threatened by declining marine fisheries catches, causing substantial interest in the sources and dynamics of fishing. Catch analyses in individual exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas are abundant, and r...

• Quantifying Interregional Flows Of Multiple Ecosystem Services - A Case Study For Germany

  Published on May 5, 2020
  Despite a growing number of national-scale ecosystem service (ES) assessments, few studies consider the impacts of ES use and consumption beyond national or regional boundaries. Interregional ES flows - ecosystem services imported from and exported t...

• Telecoupled Environmental Impacts Of Current And Alternative Western Diets

  Published on May 1, 2020
  Low-meat and no-meat diets are increasingly acknowledged as sustainable alternatives to current Western food consumption patterns. Concerns for the environment, individual health or animal welfare are raising consumers' willingness to adopt such diet...

• A Metacoupling Framework For Exploring Transboundary Watershed Management

  Published on April 28, 2020
  Water is crucial for ecosystem health and socioeconomic development, but water scarcity is becoming a global concern. Management of transboundary watersheds is inherently challenging and has the potential to lead to conflict over the allocation of wa...

• Telecoupling Of The Trade Of Donkey-hides Between Botswana And China: Challenges And Opportunities

  Published on April 28, 2020
  International trade has become a major threat to biodiversity in the telecoupled world. The literature on biodiversity loss mostly concentrates on wild species; however, the increasing loss of and demand for domesticated species are overlooked. Donke...

• The Bandwidth Problem In Telecoupled Systems Governance: Certifying Sustainable Winemaking In Australia And Chile

  Published on April 7, 2020
  Telecoupled systems connect consumption and other choices in one part of the world with land-use and landcover change in another. While such connections are increasingly well documented, research on governing telecoupled systems is in its infancy. Dr...

• Distant Regions Underpin Interregional Flows Of Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided By Birds And Mammals

  Published on April 3, 2020
  Ecosystem service assessments rarely consider flows between distant regions. Hence, telecoupling effects such as conservation burdens in distant ecosystems are ignored. We identified service-providing species for two cultural ecosystem services (exis...

• Exploring The Spatio-temporal Dynamics Of Winter Rape On The Middle Reaches Of Yangtze River Valley Using Time-series Modis Data

  Published on April 2, 2020
  Rapeseed is an important oil product in China. China's current soybean trade issues with major soybean producing countries have caused a large decline in soybean import since 2017. This may bring the increasing needs of rapeseed import, which would h...

• Dynamic Simulation Of Urbanization And Eco-environment Coupling: Current Knowledge And Future Prospects

  Published on April 1, 2020
  Urbanization and eco-environment coupling is a research hotspot. Dynamic simulation of urbanization and eco-environment coupling needs to be improved because the processes of coupling are complex and statistical methods are limited. Systems science a...

• GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE - Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany

  Published on March 20, 2020
  A first multi-ES quantification of a nation's use of ecosystem services from abroad.

• Why Telecoupling Research Needs To Account For Environmental Justice

  Published on March 12, 2020
  Engaging with normative questions in land system science is a key challenge. This debate paper highlights the potential of incorporating elements of environmental justice scholarship into the evolving telecoupling framework that focuses on distant in...