Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World

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This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Global Land-Use Change through a Telecoupling Lens: An Introduction (Cecilie Friis, Jonas Ø. Nielsen)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 What Is Telecoupling? (Jinguo Liu, Anna Herzberger, Kelly Kapsar, Andrew K. Carlson, Thomas Connor)....Pages 19-48 Telecoupling: A New Framework for Researching Land-Use Change in a Globalised World (Cecilie Friis)....Pages 49-67 Explanations in Telecoupling Research (Patrick Meyfroidt)....Pages 69-86 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production (Christian Levers, Daniel Müller)....Pages 89-113 Telecoupling and Consumption in Agri-Food Systems (Rachael Garrett, Ximena Rueda)....Pages 115-137 Toolbox: Flow Analysis—Social Metabolism in the Analysis of Telecoupling (Anke Schaffartzik, Thomas Kastner)....Pages 139-148 Trade and Land-Use Telecouplings (Javier Godar, Toby Gardner)....Pages 149-175 Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems (Edward Challies, Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow)....Pages 177-197 Toolbox: Operationalising Telecoupling with Network Analysis (Jonathan W. Seaquist, Emma Li Johansson)....Pages 199-211 Environmental Justice in Telecoupling Research (Esteve Corbera, Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Finn Mempel, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos)....Pages 213-232 Livelihoods through the Lens of Telecoupling (Yann le Polain de Waroux)....Pages 233-249 Toolbox: Spatial Analysis and Modelling (Peter H. Verburg)....Pages 251-260 Urban Telecouplings (Dagmar Haase)....Pages 261-280 Conservation Telecouplings (Tobias Kuemmerle, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt, Siyu Qin)....Pages 281-302 Toolbox: Capturing and Understanding Telecoupling through Qualitative Research (Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Janine Hauer, Cecilie Friis)....Pages 303-312 Discursive Telecouplings (Joel Persson, Ole Mertz)....Pages 313-336 Front Matter ....Pages 337-337 Beyond Integration: Exploring the Interdisciplinary Potential of Telecoupling Research (Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Cecilie Friis, Jörg Niewöhner)....Pages 339-355 Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems (Julie G. Zaehringer, Flurina Schneider, Andreas Heinimann, Peter Messerli)....Pages 357-381 Back Matter ....Pages 383-402