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Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Human–environment interactions within and across borders are now more influential than ever, posing unprecedented sustainability challenges. The framework of metacoupling (interactions within and across adjacent and distant coupled human–environment ...
da Silva RFB +5 more
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Achieving Win–Win Solutions in Telecoupled Human–Land Systems
Land, 2021 Telecoupling refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant places. Telecoupling is becoming even more significant in the increasingly globalized world and it plays a key role in the emergence of major global environmental ...
Xiaona Guo +3 more
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Remittance from migrants reinforces forest recovery for China's reforestation policy. [PDF]
PLoS OneForests play a key role in the mitigation of global warming and provide many other vital ecosystem goods and services. However, as forest continues to vanish at an alarming rate from the surface of the planet, the world desperately needs knowledge on ...
Zhang Q +9 more
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A learning journey into contemporary bioregionalism
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 2124-2140, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Bioregioning is a new wave of bioregional discourse that appears to be attracting interest among sustainability researchers and practitioners. Through interviews with contemporary leaders and a reflexive research process, we explored bioregioning experiences across seven countries.
Samuel Wearne +3 more
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Earth's Future, Volume 11, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract As the Earth's Third Pole and the Asian water tower, the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP) plays a key role in global climate regulation and biodiversity maintenance. Living in harmony with nature is vital for local and global sustainable development. Current research on the conflicted or coordinated relationship between humans and nature on the QTP
Haimeng Liu +5 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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Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark
Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 245-257, June 2023., 2023 Abstract A confluence of concerns about tropical forest loss, global warming, and social inequality drive calls to transform land use governance. Yet there is widespread debate about what must be transformed, by whom, and how. The increasing equation of transformation with ambitious, quantitative global targets, such as “net zero emissions” or “zero ...
Constance L. McDermott +8 more
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Peruvian anchoveta as a telecoupled fisheries system
Ecology and Society, 2018 Fisheries are coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) across distant places, yet fisheries research has generally focused on better understanding either fisheries ecology or human dimensions in a specific place, rather than their interactions over ...
Andrew K. Carlson +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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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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