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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, Davis, Amélie, Franklin, Janet, Gagné, Sara A., Loudermilk, E. Louise, Majorin, Fiona, Mayer, Audrey L., Scheller, Robert M., Schmiegelow, Fiona K.A., Wiersma, Yolanda F.   +9 more
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Transatlantic wood pellet trade demonstrates telecoupled benefits

Ecology and Society, 2018
European demand for renewable energy resources has led to rapidly increasing transatlantic exports of wood pellets from the southeastern United States (SE US) since 2009. Disagreements have arisen over the global greenhouse gas reductions associated with
Esther S. Parish, Anna J. Herzberger, Colin C. Phifer, Virginia H. Dale   +3 more
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Optimizing Cross-Regional Mobility Contributes to the Metacoupling Between Urbanization and the Environment for Regional Sustainability

Land
As a result of rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental problems have become increasingly severe. Sustainable regional development requires a balance between urbanization and the environment. With the intensification of economic globalization and
Ying Huang, Lan Ye, Qingyang Jiang, Yufeng Wang, Guo Wan, Peiyun He, Bo Zhou   +6 more
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Globalization and pollution: tele-connecting local primary PM_(2.5) emissions to global consumption [PDF]

, 2016
Globalization pushes production and consumption to geographically diverse locations and generates a variety of sizeable opportunities and challenges. The distribution and associated effects of short-lived primary fine particulate matter (PM_(2.5)), a ...
Guan, Dabo, Huang, Ye, Liu, Junfeng, Liu, Zhu, Meng, Jing, Tao, Shu, Xu, Yuan   +6 more
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Report About the NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards in 2015 [PDF]

With support from NASA and Michigan State University (MSU), 17 "NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award" recipients were able to attend the 2015 World Congress of Landscape Ecology.
Gutman, George, Liu, Jianguo (Jack)
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Quantifying the Provincial Carbon Emissions of China Embodied in Trade: The Perspective of Land Use

Land
Land use supports production and living activities and provides ecosystem services for people. With the flow of capital, goods, and services among regions, trade leads to the transfer of carbon emissions from importing regions to exporting regions, and ...
Qiqi Wu, Jijun Meng, Cuiyutong Yang, Likai Zhu   +3 more
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Air quality in Africa from the telecoupled perspective: exploring interdisciplinary and transboundary scientific collaboration between Africa and the Global North

Global Sustainability
Non-Technical Summary This article explores air pollution as a globally connected issue using the telecoupling lens, which links distant regions through environmental and human systems.
Marleen Dekker, Agnieszka H. Kazimierczuk, Rebecca M. Garland, Deborah Stein-Zweers, Pieternel F. Levelt   +4 more
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Governing agricultural land use in an interconnected world: Opportunities and challenges for Voluntary Sustainability Standards [PDF]

In today's interconnected world, agricultural land use is influenced by distant drivers and actors, while also having far-reaching sustainability implications extending beyond the boundaries of individual farms.
Sonderegger, Gabi
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Food security in a changing climate : The role of cropland intensification and land acquisitions across Africa [PDF]

, 2020
Food security is one of the world’s greatest challenges. The current food system shows an entanglement across the globe which means that local farmers reliant on subsistence agriculture no longer operate in isolation of larger-scale processes within the ...
Mechiche-Alami, Altaaf
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Leveraging the metacoupling framework for sustainability science and global sustainable development. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev, 2023
Liu J.
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