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

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The telecoupling framework has been proposed in land system science to address distal causal relations in land-use change in a globalised world. This chapter expands on the contextual and conceptual background for the development of the telecoupling framework and discusses its potential for productive interdisciplinary research in land system science. First, a brief description of how multiple processes of globalisation has increased the magnitude and rate of global connectivity and distant interactions challenging contemporary land-use change research is given. Second, the emergence of the telecoupling framework in LSS as a response to this challenge is described. Third, a number of embedded analytical tensions in the framework is identified and discussed in relation to furthering the agenda for interdisciplinary collaboration in land-use change research.

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    Land-coverchange is mainly used in remote sensing analysis to describe the change from one category of land-cover to another within a given pixel or area, while land-use change is used to describe the change in use category and can thus denote qualitative changes such as intensification or extensification of agriculture.

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Friis, C. (2019). Telecoupling: A New Framework for Researching Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. 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_3

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