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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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Integration across a metacoupled world

Ecology and Society, 2017
Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges.
Jianguo Liu
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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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Toward Rigorous Telecoupling Causal Attribution: A Systematic Review and Typology [PDF]

, 2018
Telecoupled flows of people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding across the globe. Causes are integral components of the telecoupling framework, yet the rigor with which they have been identified and evaluated to date is unknown.
Carlson, Andrew K., Felipe Bicudo Silva, Ramon, Furumo, Paul R., Garrett, Rachael, Gon Chung, Min, Li, Yingjie, Liu, Jianguo, Raya Rey, Andrea N., Torres, Aurora, Zaehringer, Julie G.   +9 more
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Spatiotemporal Differentiation and the Formation Mechanism of Transnational Women Trafficking in Anhui Province

Redai dili, 2022
The crime of transnational human trafficking significantly impacts social stability and state relations, and thus, deserves in-depth research from a geographical perspective. Based on 2008-2022 case data on the transnational trafficking of women in Anhui
Hong Dandan, Li Gang, Xu Jiahui, Xu Feng, Zhou Junjun, Huang Yushan, Du Mengjia   +6 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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Climate change, cattle, and the challenge of sustainability in a telecoupled system in Africa

Ecology and Society, 2018
Information, energy, and materials are flowing over greater distances than in the past, changing the structure and feedbacks within and across coupled human and natural systems worldwide.
Tara S. Easter, Alexander K. Killion, Neil H. Carter   +2 more
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Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows [PDF]

, 2023
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-MGlobal commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance.
Bager, Simon, Busck-Lumholt, Louise Marie, Challies, Edward, Coenen, Johanna, Corbera, Esteve, Friis, Cecilie, Frohn Pedersen, Anna, Laroche, Perrine, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Newig, Jens, Parra Paitan, Claudia, Qin, Siyu, Roux, Nicolas, Sonderegger, Gabi, Zaehringer, Julie Gwendolin   +14 more
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Urban water sustainability: framework and application

Ecology and Society, 2016
Urban areas such as megacities (those with populations greater than 10 million) are hotspots of global water use and thus face intense water management challenges.
Wu Yang, David W. Hyndman, Julie A. Winkler, Andrés Viña, Jillian M. Deines, Frank Lupi, Lifeng Luo, Yunkai Li, Bruno Basso, Chunmiao Zheng, Dongchun Ma, Shuxin Li, Xiao Liu, Hua Zheng, Guoliang Cao, Qingyi Meng, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jianguo Liu   +17 more
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How can virtual water trade reshape water stress pattern? A global evaluation based on the metacoupling perspective

Ecological Indicators, 2022
With water scarcity increasingly becoming a growing global risk, it is prevalent to explore water supply-demand interaction within and beyond national borders driven by global virtual water trade and its effects on water sustainability. However, there is
Yueyue Du, Dandan Zhao, Sijing Qiu, Feng Zhou, Jian Peng   +4 more
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