Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change

Eakin, Hallie; DeFries, Ruth; Kerr, Suzi; Lambin, Éric F.; Liu, Jianguo; Marcotullio, Peter J.; Messerli, Peter; Reenberg, Anette; Rueda, Ximena; Swaffield, Simon; Wicke, Birka; Zimmerer, Karl S.

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“…It can also be defined socially or institutionally (Eakin et al 2014). Socially close people can be physically distant, or vice versa (Friis and Nielsen 2017).…”

Section: Distance and Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the telecoupling framework is relatively new , it has been applied to address many different issues, such as trade (of food, energy, sand, forest products, industrial products, and virtual water; Liu 2014, Wicke 2014, Liu et al 2015a,b, Silva et al 2017, land use and land cover change (Eakin et al 2014, Sun et al 2017, species invasion , species migration (Hulina et al 2017), tourism (Liu et al 2015a), water transfer (Deines et al 2016, urbanization (Fang and Ren 2017), wildlife transfer (Liu et al 2015a), foreign direct investment (McKinney 2014), payment for ecosystem services Yang 2013, Liu et al 2016a), knowledge transfer (Liu et al 2015a), conservation (Carter et al 2014, Gasparri et al 2016, Wang and Liu 2017, economic development , and fisheries (Lynch andLiu 2014, Carlson et al 2017).…”

Section: Feasibilitymentioning

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Integration across a metacoupled world

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ABSTRACT. Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges. Although numerous studies have explored human-nature (or human-environment) interactions and generated useful insights, they are largely disintegrated. Because conceptual frameworks are the foundation of quantitative and qualitative integration, many have been proposed but focus mainly on human-nature interactions within a specific system. To reflect human-nature interactions between distant coupled systems, the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) has been developed. However, no framework has explicitly integrated human-nature interactions between adjacent coupled systems, let alone within a coupled system as well as between adjacent and distant coupled systems simultaneously. To fill such an important gap, in this paper I present an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling). A metacoupled system is a set of two or more coupled systems that interact internally as well as nearby and far away, facilitated by agents affected by various causes with various effects. By differentiating and integrating intracoupling, pericoupling, and telecoupling, the metacoupling framework advances a systems perspective on global sustainability and human well-being. The framework can help uncover hidden systemic connections such as spillovers and feedbacks that may not be apparent when focusing on a particular system. To demonstrate the utility of the metacoupling framework, I illustrate its application to human-nature interactions within a global flagship nature reserve as well as between the reserve and the rest of the world. The illustration suggests that the framework has the potential to help holistically understand and integrate human-nature interactions from local to global scales, over time, and among organizational levels. Finally, I offer suggestions for operationalizing the metacoupling framework and discuss the need for new policy, governance, and management for a sustainable future across the metacoupled world.

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“…It can also be defined socially or institutionally (Eakin et al 2014). Socially close people can be physically distant, or vice versa (Friis and Nielsen 2017).…”

Section: Distance and Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Integration across a metacoupled world

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“…It is important to note that today virtually all land systems are telecoupled (Eakin et al 2014). Flows of trade, migration, transnational land deals, and financial capital or species invasions are enveloping the globe.…”

Section: Causes and Effectsmentioning

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“…Spillover systems are systems that are affected by telecoupling processes, although they have until that moment not been connected or not been known to be connected to the sender-receiver coupling. Telecoupling thus focuses attention on effects that emerge anew or that have thus far not been visible through the dominant lenses of knowledge production and governance (Eakin et al 2014). …”

Section: Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Distal Drivers in Land Use Competition

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Land Use Competition

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This introductory chapter explores the notion of 'distal drivers' in land use competition. Research has moved beyond proximate causes of land cover and land use change to focus on the underlying drivers of these dynamics. We discuss the framework of telecoupling within human-environment systems as a first step to come to terms with the increasingly distal nature of driving forces behind land use practices. We then expand the notion of distal as mainly a measure of Euclidian space to include temporal, social, and institutional dimensions. This understanding of distal widens our analytical scope for the analysis of land use competition as a distributed process to consider the role of knowledge and power, technology, and different temporalities within a relational or systemic analysis of practices of land use competition. We conclude by pointing toward the historical and social contingency of land use competition and by acknowledging that this contingency requires a methodological-analytical approach to dynamics that goes beyond linear cause-effect relationships. A critical component of future research will be a better understanding of different types of feedback processes reaching from biophysical feedback loops to feedback produced by individual or institutional reflexivity.

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“…The current state of an island SES is also shaped by telecouplings; socioeconomic and environmental interactions with other SES over spatial distances (Liu et al 2013, Eakin et al 2014, Friis et al 2016. These telecouplings, such as increased global economic connectivity, complicate the interplay between drivers and consequences of land-system change Meyfroidt 2011, Meyfroidt et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%