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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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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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‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential
People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 11, Page 2731-2742, November 2025.Abstract We propose the framework of ‘chains of leverage’. It is an operationalisation to understand and analyse the transformative potential of social‐ecological systems and identify leverage points for sustainability transformations through a concrete four‐step approach.
Maraja Riechers +4 more
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Telecoupled land-use changes in distant countries
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017 International food trade has become a key driving force of agricultural land-use changes in trading countries, which has influenced food production and the global environment.
Jing Sun, Yu-xin TONG, Jianguo Liu
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Ecology and Society, 2023 The world has become increasingly metacoupled through flows of materials, energy, people, capital, and information within and across systems. Transboundary flows, connecting adjacent and distant systems, are deemed the most critical indicators for ...
Yingjie Li +5 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 +77 more
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Telecoupling analysis of the Patagonian Shelf: a new approach to study global seabird-fisheries interactions to achieve sustainability [PDF]
, 2020 The Southwest Atlantic Ocean, particularly the extended Patagonian Shelf, constitutes a complex, globally-relevant ecosystem. It is a highly productive area, and it maintains a high diversity and abundance of seabird species.
Huettmann, Falk +1 more
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Response of Global Forest Management to Changes in Wood Demand
Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2025.This study uses a global land use modelling framework (LandSyMM) to simulate global wood demand, harvests, and forest management intensity under a range of socioeconomic and climate scenarios. Findings indicate that global wood demand could increase between 27% and 102% by 2100. This rise in demand is expected to be met primarily through more intensive
Bartlomiej Arendarczyk +5 more
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How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science and Policy [PDF]
, 2016 Landscape ecology is a discipline that explicitly considers the influence of time and space on the environmental patterns we observe and the processes that create them.
Buma, Brian +9 more
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The Diverse Powers of Urban–Rural Linkages: A Growth‐Critical Review
Geography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines urban–rural linkages from a growth‐critical perspective to identify their diverse powers for ensuring sustainable futures. While urban–rural linkages are a well‐established object of study and have been considered from various perspectives, they have historically been viewed through a growth‐oriented lens, reinforcing ...
Ellena Brandner, Heike Mayer
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