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Global land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between the main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers of land change and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. This presents substantial challenges for research and the governance of land systems towards sustainability. This chapter describes how the interdisciplinary field of land system science has started to address these challenges through the concept and framework of telecoupling. The chapter sets the scene for the present work that brings together leading land-use change and sustainability scholars to take stock of the telecoupling concept and framework and its relevance for studying global interconnectivity and complexity in relation to land-use change and sustainability.
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Friis, C., Nielsen, J.Ø. (2019). Global Land-Use Change through a Telecoupling Lens: An Introduction. In: Friis, C., Nielsen, J.Ø. (eds) Telecoupling. Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11105-2_1
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