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Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion
Land, 2021 The stabling of livestock farming implies changes in both local ecosystems (regeneration of forest stands via reduced grazing) and those located thousands of kilometers away (deforestation to produce grain for feeding livestock). Despite their importance,
Jaime Martínez-Valderrama +5 more
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Telecoupled impacts of livestock trade on non-communicable diseases. [PDF]
Global Health, 2019 Non-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 accessibility to cheap animal products that may expand diet-related NCDs worldwide.
Chung MG, Liu J.
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Exploring the usefulness of scenario archetypes in science-policy processes: experience across IPBES assessments [PDF]
, 2019 Scenario analyses have been used in multiple science-policy assessments to better understand complex plausible futures. Scenario archetype approaches are based on the fact that many future scenarios have similar underlying storylines, assumptions, and ...
Anticamara, J. A. +31 more
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Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements [PDF]
, 2022 Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are prominent governance instruments that define and verify sustainable agricultural land use at farm and supply chain levels.
Diogo, Vasco +3 more
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Trade in the telecoupling framework: evidence from the metals industry
Ecology and Society, 2018 As a conceptual framework for understanding contemporary sustainability challenges, telecoupling emphasizes the importance of socioeconomic and environmental interactions over long distances.
Hang Xiong +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Global change processes are increasing their pace and reach, leading to telecoupled situations, where distant factors come to outpace local determinants of land use change.
Jorge C. Llopis +8 more
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Land, 2021 The intensified use of cultivated land is essential for optimizing crop planting practices and protecting food security. This study employed a telecoupling framework to evaluate the cultivated land use intensification rates in typical Chinese villages ...
Quanfeng Li +3 more
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Engineering the Anthropocene: Scalable social networks and resilience building in human evolutionary timescales [PDF]
, 2017 The Anthropocene represents the emergence of human societies as a ‘great force of nature’. To understand and engage productively with this emergent global force, it is necessary to understand its origins, dynamics and structuring processes as the long ...
Ellis, E, Fox, T, Pope, MI
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Ecology and Society, 2017 Drivers of environmental change in one location can have profound effects on ecosystem services and human well-being in distant locations, often across international borders.
Laura López-Hoffman +8 more
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Ecology and Society, 2017 Land-use change is increasingly influenced by complex socioeconomic and environmental interactions that transcend spatial, institutional, and temporal scales.
Cecilie Friis +1 more
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