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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., Arneth, A., Badola, R., Biggs, R., Blanchard, R., Brotons, L., Cantele, M., Coetzer, K., DasGupta, R., den Belder, E., Ghosh, S., Guisan, A., Gundimeda, H., Hamann, M., Harmackova, Z. V., Harrison, P. A., Hashimoto, S., Hauck, J., Klatt, B. J., Kok, K., Krug, R. M., Niamir, A., O'Farrell, P. J., Okayasu, S., Palomo, I., Pereira, L. M., Riordan, P., Santos-Martin, F., Selomane, O., Shin, Y-J., Sitas, N., Valle, M.   +31 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, James D. A. Millington, Wei Xu   +2 more
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Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar

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, Jorge C. Llopis, Clara L. Diebold, Flurina Schneider, Paul C. Harimalala, Laby Patrick, Peter Messerli, Peter Messerli, Julie G. Zaehringer   +8 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, Heinimann, Andreas, Oberlack, Christoph, Sonderegger, Gabi   +3 more
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Spatial Differentiation of Cultivated Land Use Intensification in Village Settings: A Survey of Typical Chinese Villages

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, Zhe Dong, Guoming Du, Aizheng Yang   +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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Operationalizing the telecoupling framework for migratory species using the spatial subsidies approach to examine ecosystem services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats

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, Jay Diffendorfer, Ruscena Wiederholt, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Gary McCracken, Rodrigo L. Medellin, Amy Russell, Darius J. Semmens   +8 more
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Reconnecting with nature for sustainability [PDF]

, 2018
Calls for humanity to ‘reconnect to nature’ have grown increasingly louder from both scholars and civil society. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved.
A Ewert, A Hedlund-de Witt, A Muhar, A Smith, AJ Howell, B Restall, BA Kane, BB Lin, C Dorninger, C Firth, C Folke, C Wamsler, CA Capaldi, CC Conrad, CD Ives, Christian Dorninger, Christopher D. Ives, CM Frantz, CM Raymond, D Meadows, David J. Abson, DC Thomsen, DF Shanahan, DJ Abson, E Andersson, E Gosling, E Kals, EK Nisbet, EO Wilson, FM Hawkes, FP Mainella, FS Mayer, G Epstein, G Valentine, GE Hitzhusen, GS Cumming, H Haberl, H Haberl, H Pitt, Henrik von Wehrden, J Bradley, J Fischer, J Fischer, J Fischer, J Liu, J Silvertown, J Whitburn, Joern Fischer, JR Miller, Kathleen Klaniecki, KP Tam, L Geng, LE Keniger, M Cote, M Schroeter, M Soga, M Townsend, M Wackernagel, Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, MJ Zylstra, ORW Pergams, P Bendt, P Kareiva, PA Zaradic, PHJ Kahn, PW Schultz, R Lafortezza, R Louv, R Seppelt, RC Stedman, RJG Born Van den, RM Pyle, RM Pyle, S Collado, ST Taniguchi, T Beatley, W Steffen, Y Yu   +77 more
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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos

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, Jonas Østergaard. Nielsen   +1 more
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Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows

People and Nature, 2022
Quantifying and mapping trans‐boundary ecosystem service (ES) flows can help identify dependencies and responsibilities for promoting economic development and environmental sustainability between nations, but few studies have focused on ES flows beyond ...
Yanwen Wang, Song Hong, Jinzhu Wang, Jingyu Lin, Hang Mu, Liyuan Wei, Zhen Wang, Brett A. Bryan   +7 more
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