Monographs
Friis, C. & J. Østergaard Nielsen (2019): Telecoupling. Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11105-2
For more information see: Book Publication on Telecoupling – How Researchers track Land-Use Change in a Globalised World.
Articles in Journal
2021
Roux, N.,T. Kastner, K.-H. Erb, H. Haberl (2021): Does agricultural trade reduce pressure on land ecosystems? Decomposing drivers of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production. Ecological Economics 181:106915, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106915
2020
Bager, S.L. & E.F. Lambin (2020). Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector. Business Strategy and the Environment 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2596
Coenen, J., S. Bager, P. Meyfroidt, J. Newig & E. Challies (2020). Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Environmental Policy and Governance 1–15. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1901
Hauer, J. & J. Østergaard Nielsen (2020). Making land-use change and markets: the globallocal entanglement of producing rice in Bagré, Burkina Faso. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2020.1723121
Kehoe, L., T.N.P. dos Reis, P. Meyfroidt, S. Bager, R. Seppelt, T. Kuemmerle, E. Berenguer, M. Clark, K. Frankel Davis, E. K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, K.N. Farrell, C. Friis, H. Haberl, T. Kastner, K.L. Murtough, U.M. Persson, A. Romero-Munoz, C. O’Connell, V.V.Schafer, M. Virah-Sawmy, Y. le Polain de Waroux, J Kiesecker (2020). Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test. Commentary. One Earth 3:268-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013
Laroche, P.C.S.J. , C.J.E.Schulp, T. Kastner, P.H.Verburg (2020). Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets. Global Environmental Change 62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102066
Leijten, F., S. Sim, H. King & P.H. Verburg (2020). Which forests could be protected by corporate zero deforestation commitments? A spatial assessment. Environmental Research Letters 15:064021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8158
Otero, I., K.N. Farrell, S. Pueyo, G. Kallis, L. Kehoe, H. Haberl, C. Plutzar, P. Hobson, J. García-Márquez, B. Rodríguez-Labajos, J.-L. Martin, K.-H. Erb, S. Schindler, J. Nielsen, T. Skorin, J. Settele, F. Essl, E. Gómez-Baggethun, L. Brotons, W. Rabitsch, F. Schneider, G. Pe’er (2020). Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth. Conservation Letters e12713 https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12713
T.N.P. dos Reis, P. Meyfroidt, E.K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, C. West, T. Gardner, S. Bager, S. Croft, M.J. Lathuillière, J. Godar (2020). Understanding the Stickiness of Commodity Supply Chains Is Key to Improving Their Sustainability. One Earth 3(1):100-115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.012
Sonderegger, G., C. Oberlack, J. C. Llopis, P. H. Verburg, and A. Heinimann. 2020. Telecoupling visualizations through a network lens: a systematic review. Ecology and Society 25(4):47. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11830-250447
2019
Munroe, D.K., M. Batistella, C. Friis, N.I. Gasparri, E. Lambin, J. Liu, P. Meyfroidt, E. Moran, J. Østergaard Nielsen (2019). Governing flows in telecoupled land systems. Current opinion in environmental sustainability 38:53-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.004
Nielsen, J.Ø., A. de Bremond, R. Roy Chowdhury, C. Friis, G. Metternicht, P. Meyfroidt, D. Munroe, U. Pascual, A. Thomson (2019). Toward a normative land systems science. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38:1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.003
Parra Paitan, C. & P.H. Verburg (2019). Methods to Assess the Impacts and Indirect Land Use Change Caused by Telecoupled Agricultural Supply Chains: A Review. Sustainability 11:1162. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041162
Qin, S., R.E. Golden Kroner, C. Cook, A.T. Tesfaw, R. Braybrook, C.M. Rodriguez, C. Poelking, M.B. Mascia (2019). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas. Conservation Biology 33 (6):1275-1285. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13365
2018
Meyfroidt, P., R. Roy Chowdhury, A. de Bremond, E.C. Ellis, K.H. Erb, T. Filatova, R.D. Garrett, J.M. Grove, A. Heinimann, T. Kuemmerle, C.A. Kull, E.F. Lambin, Y. Landon, Y. le Polain de Waroux, P. Messerli, D. Müller, J.Ø. Nielsen, G.D. Peterson, V. Rodriguez García, M. Schlüter, B.L. Turner II, P.H. Verburg (2018). Middle-range theories of land system change. Global Environmental Change 53:52–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006
The deliverables are the building blocks of our project and guide you through our workplan. The deliverables of the Work Packages 3-7 are public and will be available for download.
Work Package 1 – Project Management & Communication
Work Package 2 – Training Implementation
Work Package 3 – Processes
D3.1 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 1 (flows) (August 2019)
D3.2 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 2 (actors) (November 2020)
D3.3 Synthesis paper on processes coupling land systems (October 2021)
Work Package 4 – Distance
D4.1 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 3 (distance) (August 2019)
D4.2 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 4 (mismatches) (November 2020)
D4.3 Synthesis paper on different concepts of distance and mismatches (October 2021)
Work Package 5 – Processes
D5.1 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 5 (causality) (August 2019)
D5.2 Report on the outcomes of Virtual Meeting Series 6 (trade-offs) (November 2020)
D5.3 Synthesis paper on trade-offs in telecoupled systems (October 2021)
Work Package 6 – Synthesis
D6.1 Report on typology of telecoupled land systems (June 2020)
D6.2 Toolbox to assess, model, and govern telecoupled land systems (June 2021)
D6.3 Report on emerging issues in telecoupled land systems (June 2021)
Work Package 7 – Dissemination, Communication, and Translation
D7.1 Practitioners Summaries (June 2021)
D7.2 Policy white paper (August 2021)
D7.3 Summary report of publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and scientific presentations during COUPLED (December 2021)
Work Package 8 – Ethics requirements
Meet some COUPLED members and get a short insight into our training network. It was filmed during our Summer School last July in Berlin and surroundings. Thanks to Anna Frohn Pedersen for putting it together.
Do you ever ask yourself where your golden jewellery was born? It might well be right here, in Tanzania. Extracting gold is what employs hundreds of thousands Tanzanians and gives them food on the table. But it comes with a price that both the people and the environment will eventually pay.
60Seconds is an urban video festival projecting selected silent short films. Anna‘s short film Gold was selected and presented in April 2020.
Does trade help to achieve SDGs? Or do we need different trade regulations? Nicolas has six minutes to discuss whether or not international trade in agricultural products did reduce pressure in land ecosystems. Does he pass the challenge? Look for yourself.
Resources
Flyer – Quick Guide to COUPLED PDF
Media Coverage
360° – Verden I Udvikling (Danish magazine): Afrikas Wild West – Jagen pa det gode guld. By Anne Kidmose Jensen. December 2018 HTML
Featuring fieldwork of COUPLED PhD Anna in Tanzania.
Africa’s gold mines bring about accidents, child labor and pollution. But the continent’s small gold mines can fight poverty locally, organizations say. Take the magazine 360 ° into Tanzania’s new gold rush.
Bruun T. B., de Neergaard A., Lawrence D. & Ziegler A. (2009). Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia: Carbon Storage and Soil Quality. Human Ecology 37:375-388.
Bruun T.B., de Neergaard A., Burup M.L., Hepp C.M., Larsen M.N., Abel C., Aumtong S., Magid J. & Mertz O. (in press). Intensification of Upland Agriculture in Thailand: Development or Degradation? Land Degradation & Development. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2596.
Challies E., Newig J. & Lenschow A. (2014). What role for social-ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections? Global Environmental Change 27:32-40.
Chaplin-Kramer R., Sharp R., Mandle L., Sim S., Johnson J., Butnar I., Mila I., Canals L., Eichelberger B., Ramler I., Mueller C., McLachlan N., Yousefi A., King H. & Kareiva P. (2014). Spatial patterns of agricultural expansion determine impacts on biodiversity and carbon storage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:7402-7.
Chaplin-Kramer, R., Ramler I., Sharp R., Haddad N., Gerber J., West P., Mandle L., Engstrom P., Baccini A., Sim S., Mueller C. & King H. (2015). Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges. Nature Communications 6:10158.
Corbera E. (2012). Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4:612-619.
Corbera E. (2015). Valuing nature, paying for ecosystem services and realizing social justice: A response to Matulis (2014). Ecological Economics 110:154-157.
Corbera E., Calvet-Mir L., Hughes H.R. & Paterson M. (2015). Patterns of authorship in the IPCC Working Group III report. Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2782.
Creutzig F., Corbera E., Hunsberger C. & Bolwig S. (2013). Integrating place-specific livelihood and equity outcomes into global assessments of bioenergy deployment. Environmental Research Letters 8:035047.
Eakin, H. et al. in Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era (eds Karen C Seto & Anette Reenberg) (MIT Press, 2014).
Erb K.H., Krausmann F., Lucht W. & Haberl H. (2009). Embodied HANPP: Mapping the spatial disconnect between global biomass production and consumption. Ecological Economics 69:328-334.
Fischer-Kowalski M., Dittrich M., Eisenmenger N., Fulton J., Kastner T., Hosking K., Schandl H., West J. & Wiedmann T.O (2015). International Trade in Resources: A Biophysical Assessment. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme.
Friis C., Nielsen J.Ø., Otero I., Haberl H., Niewöhner J. & Hostert P. (2016). From teleconnection to telecoupling: taking stock of an emerging framework in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science 11:131-153.
Friis, C., Nielsen, J. Ø.2017. On the system. Boundary choices, implications and solutions in telecoupling land use change research. Sustainability 9 (6), 974, 1-20, http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/6/974
Friis, C., Nielsen, J. Ø.2017. Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos. Ecology and Society 22 (30), http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-09480-220430.
Gasparri N.I., Kuemmerle T., Meyfroidt P., Le Polain Waroux Y. & Kreft H. (2015). The emerging soybean frontier in Southern Africa: conservation challenges and the role of south-south telecouplings. Conservation Letters 8:290-298.
Godar J., Suavet C., Gardner T.A., Dawkins E. & Meyfroidt P. (2016). Balancing detail and scale in assessing transparency to improve the governance of agricultural commodity supply chains. Environmental Research Letters 11:035015. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/035015.
Haberl H., Erb K.H. & Krausmann F. (2014). Human appropriation of net primary production: patterns, trends, and planetary boundaries. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 39: 363-391
Haberl H., Steinberger J.K., Plutzar C., Erb K.H., Gaube V. Gingrich S. & Krausmann F. (2012). Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators. Ecological Indicators 23:222-231.
Heilmayr R. & Lambin E.F. (2016). Impacts of nonstate, market-driven governance on Chilean forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:2910-2915.
Heinimann A., Hett C., Hurni K., Messerli P., Epprecht M., Jørgensen L. & Breu T. (2013). Socio-economic perspectives on shifting cultivation landscapes in Northern Laos. Human Ecology 41:51-62.
Jadin I., Meyfroidt P. & Lambin E.F. (2016). International trade, and land use intensification and spatial reorganisation explain Costa Rica’s forest transition. Environmental Research Letters 11:035005.
Jordà-Capdevila D. & Rodríguez-Labajos B (2017). Socioeconomic value(s) of restoring environmental flows: systematic review and guidance for assessment. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.3074.
Kastner T., Erb K.H. & Haberl H. (2014). Rapid growth in agricultural trade: effects on global area efficiency and the role of management. Environmental Research Letters 9: 034015.
Kastner T., Erb K.H. & Nonhebel S. (2011). International wood trade and forest change: A global analysis. Global Environmental Change 21:947-956.
Kastner, T., Erb, K.-H. & Haberl, H. Rapid growth in agricultural trade: Effects on global area efficiency and the role of management. Env. Research Letters 9, 034015 (2014).
Kuemmerle T., Kaplan J.E., Prishchepov A.V., Rylskyy I., Chaskovskyy O., Tikunov V.S. & Müller D. (2015). Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets. Global Change Biology 21:3049-3061.
Lambin E.F. & Meyfroidt P. (2011). Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:3465–3472.
Le Polain Y., Garrett R., Heilmayr R. & Lambin E.F. (2016). Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:4021-4026.
Lenschow A., Newig J. & Challies E. (2015). Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance. Environmental Politics 25:136-159.
Liu J.Q., Hull V., Batistella M., DeFries R., Dietz T., Fu F., Hertel T.W., Izaurralde R.C,. Lambin E.F., Li S., Martinelli L.A., McConnell W., Moran E.F., Naylor R., Ouyang Z., Polenske K.R., Reenberg A., de Miranda Rocha G., Simmons C.S., Verburg P.H., Vitousek P.M., Zhang F. & Zhu C. (2013). Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology and Society 18:26. DOI: 10.5751/ES-05873-180226
Magliocca N., Rudel T.K, Verburg P.H., McConnell W.J, Mertz O., Gerstner K., Heinimann A. & Ellis E. (2015). Synthesis in Land Change Science: Methodological Patterns, Challenges, and Guidelines. Regional Environmental Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0626-8.
McGregor A. & Challies E., Howson P., Astuti R. et al. (2015). Beyond carbon, more than forest? REDD+ governmentality in Indonesia. Environment and Planning A 47:138-155.
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Mertz O., Egay K., Bruun T.B. & Colding T. (2013): The last swiddens of Sarawak, Malaysia. Human Ecology 41:109-118.
Messerli P., Bader C., Hett C., Epprecht M. & Heinimann A. (2015). Towards a spatial understanding of trade-offs in sustainable development: an analysis of landscapes in the Lao PDR. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133418.
Messerli P., Heinimann A., Giger M., Breu T. & Schoenweger O. (2013). From ‘land grabbing’ to sustainable investments in land: potential contributions by land change science. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
Meyfroidt, P. & Lambin, E. F. Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad. PNAS 106, 16139-16144 (2009).I: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.03.004.
Meyfroidt P., Carlson K.M., Fagan M.E., Gutiérrez-Vélez V.H., Macedo M.N., Curran L.M., DeFries R.S., Dyer G.A., Gibbs H.K., Lambin E.F., Morton D.C. & Robiglio V. (2014). Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes. Environmental Research Letters 9:074012. DOI: 1748-9326/9/7/074012.
Meyfroidt P., Rudel T.K. & Lambin E.F. (2010). Forest transitions, trade and the global displacement of land use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:20917–20922.
Müller, D. & Munroe, D. K. Current and future challenges in land use science. J. Land Use Science 9, 133-142 (2014).
Newig J. & Fritsch O. (2009). Environmental governance: Participatory, multi-level – and effective? Environmental Policy and Governance 19:197-214.
Newig J., Günther D. & Pahl-Wostl C. (2010). Synapses in the network: Learning in governance networks in the context of environmental management. Ecology and Society 15, www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art24/.
Nielsen J.Ø. & Vigh H. (2012). Adaptive lives. Navigating the global food crisis in a changing climate. Global Environmental Change 22:659-669.
Oberlack C., Tejada L., Messerli P., Rist S. & Giger M. (2016). Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Global Environmental Change 41:153-171.
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Rodríguez-Labajos B. (2013). Climate change, ecosystem services, and costs of action and inaction: Scoping the interface. WIREs-Climate Change 4:555-573.
Schierhorn F., Meyfroidt P., Kastner T., Kuemmerle T., Prishchepov A.V. & Müller D. (2016): The dynamics of beef trade between Brazil and Russia and their environmental implications. Global Food Security, in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2016.08.001.
Schulp C.J.E., Lautenbach S. & Verburg P.H. (2014). Quantifying and mapping ecosystem services: Demand and supply of pollination in the European Union. Ecological Indicators 36:131-141.
Serna-Chavez H.M., Schulp C.J.E., van Bodegom P.M., Bouten W., Verburg P.H. & Davidson M.D. (2014). A quantitative framework for assessing spatial flows of ecosystem services. Ecological Indicators 39:24-33.
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van Vliet J., Magliocca N., Büchner B., Cook E., Rey Benayas J., Ellis E.C., Heinimann A., Keys E., Lee T., Liu J., Mertz O., Meyfroidt P., Moritz M., Poeplau C., Robinson B., Seppelt R., Seto K. & Verburg P. (2015). Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-015-0699-8.
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