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.

Presents an overview of the emerging concept of telecoupling Brings together leading experts on telecoupling and land-use Reflects upon the relevance of telecoupling in understanding global land-use change and its sustainability challenges

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

1 Global Land-Use Change through a Telecoupling Lens: An Introduction; Cecilie Friis and Jonas Ø. Nielsen.- Part I: Overview.- 2 What Is Telecoupling?; Jinguo Liu, Anna Herzberger, Kelly Kapsar, Andrew K. Carlson, and Thomas Connor.- 3 Telecoupling: A New Framework for Researching Land-Use Change in a Globalised World; Cecilie Friis.- 4 Explanations in Telecoupling Research; Patrick Meyfroidt.- Part II: Topics.- 5 Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production;Christian Levers and Daniel Müller.- 6 Telecoupling and Consumption in Agri-Food Systems; Rachael Garrett and Ximena Rueda.- 7 Toolbox: Flow AnalysisSocial Metabolism in the Analysis of Telecoupling; Anke Schaffartzik and Thomas Kastner.- 8 Trade and Land-Use Telecouplings; Javier Godar and Toby Gardner.- 9 Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems; Edward Challies, Jens Newig, and Andrea Lenschow.- 10 Toolbox: Operationalising Telecoupling with Network Analysis; Jonathan W. Seaquist and Emma Li Johansson.- 11 Environmental Justice in Telecoupling Research; Esteve Corbera, Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Finn Mempel, and Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos.- 12 Livelihoods through the Lens of Telecoupling; Yann le Polain de Waroux.- 13 Toolbox: Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Peter H. Verburg.- 14 Urban Telecouplings; Dagmar Haase.- 15 Conservation Telecouplings; Tobias Kuemmerle, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt, and Siyu Qin.- 16 Toolbox: Capturing and Understanding Telecoupling through Qualitative Research; Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Janine Hauer, and Cecilie Friis.- 17 Discursive Telecouplings; Joel Persson and Ole Mertz.- Part III: Agenda.- 18 Beyond Integration: Exploring the Interdisciplinary Potential of Telecoupling Research; Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Cecilie Friis, and Jörg Niewöhner.- 19 Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems; Julie G. Zaehringer, Flurina Schneider, Andreas Heinimann, and Peter Messerli.