Telecoupling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Global Land-Use Change through a Telecoupling Lens: An Introduction

   • Cecilie Friis, Jonas Ø. Nielsen

   Pages 1-15

3. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. What Is Telecoupling?

      • Jinguo Liu, Anna Herzberger, Kelly Kapsar, Andrew K. Carlson, Thomas Connor

      Pages 19-48

   3. Telecoupling: A New Framework for Researching Land-Use Change in a Globalised World

      • Cecilie Friis

      Pages 49-67

   4. Explanations in Telecoupling Research

      • Patrick Meyfroidt

      Pages 69-86

4. Topics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production

      • Christian Levers, Daniel Müller

      Pages 89-113

   3. Telecoupling and Consumption in Agri-Food Systems

      • Rachael Garrett, Ximena Rueda

      Pages 115-137

   4. Toolbox: Flow Analysis—Social Metabolism in the Analysis of Telecoupling

      • Anke Schaffartzik, Thomas Kastner

      Pages 139-148

   5. Trade and Land-Use Telecouplings

      • Javier Godar, Toby Gardner

      Pages 149-175

   6. Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems

      • Edward Challies, Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow

      Pages 177-197

   7. Toolbox: Operationalising Telecoupling with Network Analysis

      • Jonathan W. Seaquist, Emma Li Johansson

      Pages 199-211

   8. Environmental Justice in Telecoupling Research

      • Esteve Corbera, Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Finn Mempel, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

      Pages 213-232

   9. Livelihoods through the Lens of Telecoupling

      • Yann le Polain de Waroux

      Pages 233-249

   10. Toolbox: Spatial Analysis and Modelling

       • Peter H. Verburg

       Pages 251-260

   11. Urban Telecouplings

       • Dagmar Haase

       Pages 261-280

   12. Conservation Telecouplings

       • Tobias Kuemmerle, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt, Siyu Qin

       Pages 281-302

   13. Toolbox: Capturing and Understanding Telecoupling through Qualitative Research

       • Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Janine Hauer, Cecilie Friis

       Pages 303-312

   14. Discursive Telecouplings

       • Joel Persson, Ole Mertz

       Pages 313-336

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.

• land-use change
• telecoupling
• environmental management
• land system science
• consumption
• sustainable land-use
• urban-land teleconnections
• conservation
• urban development
• globalisation
• agri-food systems
• Environmental justice
• Environmental Geography
• natural resources and energy economics

• IRI THESys & Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Cecilie Friis, Jonas Ø. Nielsen

Cecilie Friis is a post-doctoral researcher at the IRI THESys at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on land-use change, crop booms, and land grabbing in frontier regions of Southeast Asia, and she is the Co-Organiser of a Global Land Programme Working Group on Telecoupling Research towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems.




Jonas Ø. Nielsen is Professor of Integrative Geography at the Geography Department and Research Group Leader at the IRI THESys at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He is on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Programme and the Coordinator of a Horizon 2020 funded Innovative Training Network on telecoupling.

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