Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development

Xu, Zhenci; Li, Yingjie; Chau, Sophia N.; Dietz, Thomas; Li, Canbing; Wan, Luwen; Zhang, Jindong; Zhang, Liwei; Li, Yunkai; Chung, Min Gon; Liu, Jianguo

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“…Second, countries may be metacoupled (e.g., through trade between adjacent countries and between distant countries) 47 , and a shorter distance between sending and receiving countries plays a crucial role in increasing meat trade 6 . Distance has also been shown to be very important in the trade of other products 48,49 , as well as in other human activities such as global fishing 50 , tourism [51][52][53] , and flows of ecosystem services [54][55][56] . Third, income level and population size have been found to be important determinants of global meat trade 1,2 .…”

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The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

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Rapid increases in meat trade generate complex global networks across countries. However, there has been little research quantifying the dynamics of meat trade networks and the underlying forces that structure them. Using longitudinal network data for 134 countries from 1995 to 2015, we combined network modeling and cluster analysis to simultaneously identify the structural changes in meat trade networks and the factors that influence the networks themselves. The integrated network approach uncovers a general consolidation of global meat trade networks over time, although some global events may have weakened this consolidation both regionally and globally. In consolidated networks, the presence of trade agreements and short geographic distances between pairs of countries are associated with increases in meat trade. Countries with rapid population and income growth greatly depend on meat imports. Furthermore, countries with high food availability import large quantities of meat products to satisfy their various meat preferences. The findings from this network approach provide key insights that can be used to better understand the social and environmental consequences of increasing global meat trade.

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The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

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“…Tourism and wildlife translocations are two types of globally common and important flows, and share features with other metacoupled processes, such as international trade [17,19], ecosystem services [81,82], and migration [83], as many studies indicate [26,34,84,85]. For instance, various flows connect sending, receiving, and spillover systems, which are affected socioeconomically and environmentally by the flows.…”

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“…Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in 2015, many studies have focused on evaluating synergies and trade-offs among the SDGs/targets [7][8][9][10][11], yet less attention has been paid to the effects of actions on SDG interactions across geographical boundaries [6,[12][13][14][15][16]. Recent studies noticed different impacts of consumption levels [12,13] and international trade [17] on the SDGs/targets between developed and developing countries, and another study indicated energy use changes in one local place may influence progress toward SDGs of other areas [15]. In the socioeconomically and environmentally metacoupled planet [18,19], special attention to evaluating SDG synergies and trade-offs across boundaries is urgently needed.…”

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“…The metacoupling framework has been applied to many important issues, such as environment [29], energy [30], soil conservation [31], food trade [32], and fishery [22], and across different scales, such as smallholders [25], regional watershed systems [33], national energy network [30], and marine system at global scales [23]. It was only recently applied to SDG interactions and emphasized that the flows (e.g., tourism and trade) affect SDG synergies and trade-offs across boundaries [6,17].…”

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“…Moreover, the demonstrating cases of tourism to and panda loans from the Wolong Nature Reserve [6] are two examples of many metacoupled flows (of information, energy, people, organisms, goods, and matter) that increasingly connect the world. The flows influence SDG synergies and trade-offs when several targets or SDGs are positively or negatively affected by the flows from start to end, across boundaries [6,17].…”

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Synergies and trade-offs among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been hotly debated. Although the world is increasingly metacoupled (socioeconomic-environmental interactions within and across adjacent or distant systems), there is little understanding of the impacts of globally widespread and important flows on enhancing or compromising sustainability in different systems. Here, we used a new integrated framework to guide SDG synergy and trade-off analysis within and across systems, as influenced by cross-boundary tourism and wildlife translocations. The world’s terrestrial protected areas alone receive approximately 8 billion visits per year, generating a direct economic impact of US $600 billion. Globally, more than 5000 animal species and 29,000 plant species are traded across country borders, and the wildlife trade has arguably contributed to zoonotic disease worldwide, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We synthesized 22 cases of tourism and wildlife translocations across six continents and found 33 synergies and 14 trade-offs among 10 SDGs within focal systems and across spillover systems. Our study provides an empirical demonstration of SDG interactions across spillover systems and insights for holistic sustainability governance, contributing to fostering synergies and reducing trade-offs to achieve global sustainable development in the metacoupled Anthropocene.

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Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development

Cited by 185 publications

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The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks

Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems

Would external debts promote sustainable development in emerging and low‐income countries?

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