Telecoupling

Publications

• The Neglected Cost: Ecosystem Services Loss Due To Urban Expansion In China From A Triple-coupling Perspective

  Published on January 31, 2025
  Urban expansion's direct ecological consequences are well recognized, but its indirect and remote effects remain unclear. This study explores how urban expansion in China drives a series of land use changes, causing ecosystem service (ES) loss throug...

• Landscapes-a Lens For Assessing Sustainability

  Published on January 29, 2025
  Context There are urgent calls to transition society to more sustainable trajectories, at scales ranging from local to global. Landscape sustainability (LS), or the capacity for landscapes to provide equitable access to ecosystem services essential f...

• The Financialization Of Rivers: Clean Development Mechanism Cdm Subsidized Hydropower In The Mekong Region's Basins At Risk

  Published on January 23, 2025
  The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a key carbon offset scheme that underpins the global carbon market. This mechanism leaves out many other non-carbon considerations, including the impacts of the CDM on water governance. The CD...

• Assessing And Implementing The Concept Of Blue Economy In Laurentian Great Lakes Fisheries: Lessons From Coupled Human And Natural Systems

  Published on January 3, 2025
  Inland fisheries often receive little to no attention in global discussions about sustainable development. The consequences of overlooking inland fisheries in sustainability dialogues are increasingly problematic Elevating the global profile of inlan...

• Assessing The Sustainability Of China's Coastal Regions: A Perspective On Local Coupling And Telecoupling

  Published on December 17, 2024
  The transboundary flow of resource elements has resulted in unprecedented transfers of environmental and social impacts, inevitably influencing a region's environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Consequently, evaluating the effects of bot...

• Analyzing Urban Water Metabolism Of Adama City Using Water Mass Balance Method For Advancing Water Sensitive Interventions

  Published on November 23, 2024
  Urban water metabolism focuses on measuring water inflows and outflows within a defined urban system. As an emerging concept, it provides valuable understandings into water flow dynamics, supporting evidence-based decision-making. One approach to qua...

• Telecoupling Cannot Be Ignored For The Forest-based Carbon Market

  Published on November 10, 2024
  Telecoupling interactions between social-ecological systems across large, often global distances drive negative impacts from the forest- based carbon market. However, these negative impacts have been underreported and, therefore, have likely been vas...

• Transnational Governance Of Soybean Land Use In South America: A Polycentric Approach

  Published on October 28, 2024
  The expansion of soybean cultivation in South America has created substantial economic prosperity but has also raised a series of unsustainable land-use issues. Considering the telecoupling system (a system of socio-ecological interactions between di...

• Unveiling Interprovincial Geographic Patterns Of 5a-level Tourism Cultural Ecosystem Service Flows And Tourist Preferences In China's ' S Metacoupled Systems

  Published on October 23, 2024
  In the metacoupling Anthropocene, tourism-based culture ecosystem services flows (CESF) can establish nonmaterial bridges from the natural to the human system, even across vast geographic distances. However, there remains a knowledge gap regarding in...

• Fishery And Agriculture Amidst Human Activities And Climate Change In The Mekong River: A Review Of Gaps In Data And Effective Approaches Towards Sustainable Development

  Published on October 17, 2024
  Fisheries and agriculture - the pillars of food security in the Lancang Mekong River Basin (LMRB) - substantially contribute to the welfare of communities in the region through international trade and local daily food sources. These sectors, however,...

• APPLIED GEOGRAPHY - Unveiling interprovincial geographic patterns of 5A-level tourism cultural ecosystem service flows and tourist preferences in China's metacoupled systems

  Published on October 15, 2024
  We analyzed the intracoupling (within-province), pericoupling (adjacent-province), and telecoupling (distant-provincial) flow patterns using a sample of 143,681 5A attractions travel comments with Internet Protocol (IP) location data.

• Telecoupling Effects Among Provinces Of Cultivated Land Grain Production In The Last 30 Years: Evidence From China.

  Published on August 31, 2024
  Telecoupling interregional resource interaction based on cultivated land grain production (CLGP) plays a crucial role in ensuring national food security and advancing sustainable socio-environmental and economic development. Based on the provincial p...

• The Employment Impacts Of Fossil Fuel Trade Across Cities In China: A Telecoupling Perspective

  Published on August 24, 2024
  The trade of resources geographically bridges production and consumption, driving telecoupling between resource extraction and distant consumption. However, the telecoupling between employment and fossil fuels has not been quantitatively analyzed yet...

• Sistema Social-ecológico Fluvial Y La Emergencia Del Turismo En Traslasierra Córdoba, Argentina En La Primera Mitad Del Siglo Xx

  Published on August 11, 2024
  Abstract Since the late 19th century, persistent efforts to modernize Argentinas mountainous areas of western Córdoba have propelled the consolidation of a tourist economic circuit. This study undertakes a historical-ecological reconstruction of this...

• A Global Multi-indicator Assessment Of The Environmental Impact Of Livestock Products

  Published on July 16, 2024
  Driven by a growing and more affluent population, changing diets and lifestyles, the demand for livestock products is expected to surge in the next decades. Satisfying this demand will result in additional pressures on land systems. The increasingly ...

• Remittance From Migrants Reinforces Forest Recovery For China's Reforestation Policy

  Published on July 12, 2024
  Forests play a key role in the mitigation of global warming and provide many other vital ecosystem goods and services. However, as forest continues to vanish at an alarming rate from the surface of the planet, the world desperately needs knowledge on...

• A Multi-level Network Tool To Trace Wasted Water From Farm To Fork And Backwards

  Published on June 25, 2024
  Food loss and waste (FLW) is an issue of great public concern, due to its major impact on food security and on the social, economic and environmental resources involved in food production, trade and consumption. In this work, we put the lens on water...

• Telecoupling Between Urban Expansion And Forest Ecosystem Service Loss Through Cultivated Land Displacement: A Case Study Of Zhejiang Province, China

  Published on May 11, 2024
  Urbanization can either directly occupy forests or indirectly lead to forest loss elsewhere through cultivated land displacement, resulting in further forest fragmentation and ecosystem service (ES) loss. However, the effects of urban expansion on fo...

• Telecoupling Lens For Integrating Ecological And Human Dimensions Of The Biological Invasion Problem

  Published on March 29, 2024
  Human activities that define the Anthropocene can lead to multi-faceted (social, ecological, economic) problems, such as biological invasions. Yet, interdisciplinary collaborations focused on understanding their causes and finding solutions remain re...

• SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Global hidden spillover effects among concurrent green initiatives

  Published on March 20, 2024
  We collected empirical data and information about green initiatives from 15 sites or countries worldwide, and explored how specific policy, intended behaviors, and gains of given green initiative may interact with those of other green initiatives.