Telecoupling

Publications

• What Is Governance In Global Telecoupling?

  Published on September 1, 2019
  The concept of telecoupling is increasingly used as a framework to understand globally distant interconnections and their sustainability implications. Although there is a growing research focus on issues of governance related to global telecoupling, ...

• Migration As A Feature Of Land System Transitions

  Published on August 26, 2019
  Human migration to and from rural areas is so prominent and persistent globally that land system science must understand how the movement of people is integral to land system transitions both at the origin of migration and at its destination. With a ...

• A Global Review On Locusts Orthoptera: Acrididae And Their Interactions With Livestock Grazing Practices

  Published on August 8, 2019
  Connections between locusts and people date backmillennia and locusts remain amajor food security challenge today throughout the world. Locust biology is often linked to abiotic conditions like temperature and/or precipitation, fueling the perception...

• GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH - Telecoupled impacts of livestock trade on non-communicable diseases

  Published on August 1, 2019
  LIvestock consumption through livestock import increased diet-related NCD risks.

• Eco-certification Protocols As Mechanisms To Foster Sustainable Environmental Practices In Telecoupled Systems

  Published on August 1, 2019
  The international trade of forestry and agricultural commodities leads distant regions across the globe to become connected through flows of products, information and capital. To deal with the sustainability and socioeconomic challenges of these inte...

• Telecoupled Impacts Of Livestock Trade On Non-communicable Diseases

  Published on July 24, 2019
  BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs)-chronic human health problems such as cardiovascular diseases linked to poor diets-are significant challenges for sustainable development and human health. The international livestock trade increases accessi...

• Telecoupled Sustainable Livelihoods In An Era Of Rural-urban Dynamics: The Case Of China

  Published on July 9, 2019
  Recently, increasingly sophisticated studies have investigated the relationship between agrarian livelihoods and the environment, as well as rural-urban interactions in developing countries. The policies developed to respond to these dynamics can con...

• A Novel Telecoupling Framework To Assess Social Relations Across Spatial Scales For Ecosystem Services Research

  Published on July 1, 2019
  Access to ecosystem services and influence on their management are structured by social relations among actors, which often occur across spatial scales. Such cross-scale social relations can be analysed through a telecoupling framework as decisions t...

• A Spatio-temporal Delineation Of Trans-boundary Ecosystem Service Flows From Inner Mongolia

  Published on June 14, 2019
  Ecosystem service (ES) flows across geophysical and administrative boundaries are ubiquitous and are receiving more attention in an increasingly metacoupled world. Omitting trans-boundary ES flows from ES assessments will lead to unilateral conclusio...

• A Multi-scale Analysis Of Interregional Sustainability: Applied To Israel's Food Supply

  Published on June 4, 2019
  Promoting sustainability in today's world requires an understanding of the environmental burdens and social impacts of one region's consumption on other regions, both adjacent and remote. In recent years a growing body of research has quantified inte...

• Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on June 3, 2019
  The increasing global interconnectivity influencing land system changebringswith it newchallengesforland-system science.We evaluate whether recentland-system science (LSS) research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities

• Assessing The Impact Of China's Timber Industry On Congo Basin Land Use Change

  Published on May 27, 2019
  Through the rise of global commodity chains, consumer demand in China and the USA has given rise to the extraction of natural resources in the Congo Basin. The Chinese market for high-valued animal products such as elephant ivory and pangolin scales ...

• SUSTAINABILITY - Telecoupled Food Trade Affects Pericoupled Trade and Intracoupled Production

  Published on May 22, 2019
  The extent to which the telecoupled food trade affected the pericoupled trade and intracoupled processes holds implications for the true extent of production driven by distant demands.

• Eco-certification protocols as mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices in telecoupled systems

  Published on May 20, 2019
  This paper uses the telecoupling framework to investigate how distant systems are connected through flows of eco-certified forestry products and demonstrates how these connections drive environmental law compliance at the rural property level.

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH - International Tourism Dynamics in a Globalized World: A Social Network Analysis Approach

  Published on May 16, 2019
  Global tourism networks have become highly consolidated over time and that reduced transaction costs (e.g., language, distance, and visa policies) are more important in attracting international tourists than natural and cultural attractions.

• EXPLORING LAND USE CHANGE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (Book chapter) What is Telecoupling?

  Published on May 5, 2019
  Book chapter -- preview of first 20 pages

• CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRO SUSTAINABILITY - Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on May 1, 2019
  We evaluate whether recent land-system science research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities for addressing sustainability in coupled human-natural systems.

• Interdependencies And Telecoupling Of Oil Palm Expansion At The Expense Of Indonesian Rainforest

  Published on May 1, 2019
  Global palm oil production has greatly increased in recent years with the adoption of renewable energy policies by the E.U. and U.S.A. and growing demand for its use in food, biodiesel, and other commodities. Indonesia, the world's largest oil palm p...

• Analyzing Requisition-compensation Balance Of Farmland Policy In China Through Telecoupling: A Case Study In The Middle Reaches Of Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations

  Published on April 18, 2019
  This study evaluates the requisition-compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy with the telecoupling framework of quantity-quality-productivity-ecological balance in the middle reaches of Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations (MRYRUA) in China from...

• ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS - Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows

  Published on April 14, 2019
  We compile different indicators for assessing interregional ES flows and evaluate their suitability for national and regional ES assessments.