Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability
Ecology and Society, 2018 Smallholders are crucial for global sustainability given their importance to food and nutritional security, agriculture, and biodiversity conservation.
Karl S. Zimmerer +2 more
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Uncovering the spatially distant feedback loops of global trade: A network and input-output approach [PDF]
, 2017 Land-use change is increasingly driven by global trade. The term “telecoupling” has been gaining ground as a means to describe how human actions in one part of the world can have spatially distant impacts on land and land-use in another.
Anderson +67 more
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Land, 2017 The telecoupling framework is an integrated concept that emphasises socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant places. Viewed through the lens of the telecoupling framework, land use and food consumption are linked across local to ...
James D. A. Millington +3 more
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The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation [PDF]
, 2020 What are the capacities of the state to facilitate a comprehensive sustainability transition? It is argued that structural barriers akin to an invisible "glass ceiling" are inhibiting any such transformation.
Hausknost, Daniel
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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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Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System [PDF]
, 2019 Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints.
Bruckner, Martin +6 more
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Changes in biodiversity and trade-offs among ecosystem services, stakeholders, and components of well-being: the contribution of the International Long-Term Ecological Research network (ILTER) to Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) [PDF]
, 2016 The International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network comprises > 600 scientific groups conducting site-based research within 40 countries. Its mission includes improving the understanding of global ecosystems and informs solutions to current ...
Balvanera, Patricia +16 more
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Telecoupling Toolbox: spatially explicit tools for studying telecoupled human and natural systems
Ecology and Society, 2017 Telecoupling is a novel interdisciplinary umbrella concept that enables natural and social scientists to understand and generate information for managing how humans and nature can sustainably coexist worldwide.
Francesco Tonini, Jianguo Liu
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Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability
Ecology and Society, 2018 Telecoupling refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant coupled human and natural systems, and has become more extensive and intensive in the globalized era.
Vanessa Hull, Jianguo Liu
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Understanding land in the context of large-scale land acquisitions: A brief history of land in economics [PDF]
, 2019 In economics, land has been traditionally assumed to be a fixed production factor, both in terms of quantity supplied and mobility, as opposed to capital and labor, which are usually considered to be mobile factors, at least to some extent.
De Maria, Marcello
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