Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use

Project Information

COUPLED

Grant agreement ID: 765408

DOI 10.3030/765408

Project closed

EC signature date 30 August 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 839 615,98

EU contribution € 3 839 615,98

Coordinated by

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN
Germany

Deliverables

Documents, reports (17)

Synthesis paper on trade-offs in telecoupled systems

Synthesis paper on tradeoffs in telecoupled systems submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Policy white paper

Policy white paper submitted to Supervisory Board and Director of Research

Interactive Training Hub User Manual

Interactive Training Hub User Manual provided to the network.

Report on the outcomes of VMS 1 (flows)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 1 (flows) submitted to WP lead and Director of Research.

Report on the outcomes of VMS 5 (causality)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 5 (causality) submitted to WP lead and Director of Research.

Report on ESR graduation, including all PhD theses

Report on ESR graduation including all PhD theses ready

Report on the outcomes of VMS 3 (distance)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 3 (distance) submitted to WP lead and Director of Research.

Synthesis paper on processes coupling land systems

Synthesis paper on processes coupling land systems submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Report on the outcomes of VMS 4 (mismatches)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 4 mismatches submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Synthesis paper on different concepts of distance and mismatches

Synthesis paper on different concepts of distance and mismatches submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Summary report of publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and scientific presentations during COUPLED

Summary report of publications in international peerreviewed journals and scientific presentations during COUPLED compiled

Report on typology of telecoupled land systems

Report on typology of telecoupled land systems ready

Report on the outcomes of VMS 2 (actors)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 2 actors submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Report on the outcomes of VMS 6 (trade-offs)

Report on the outcomes of VMS 6 tradeoffs submitted to WP lead and Director of Research

Report on emerging issues in telecoupled land systems

Report on emerging issues in telecoupled land systems ready

Practitioners Summaries

Practitioners Summaries submitted to Supervisory Board

Toolbox to assess, model, and govern telecoupled land systems

Toolbox to assess model and govern telecoupled land systems ready

Other (1)

Supervisory Board of COUPLED

Supervisory Board of COUPLED established.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation

Author(s): Buchadas, A.; Qin, S.; Meyfroidt, P.; Kuemmerle, T.
Published in: Journal of Land Use Science, 2022, ISSN 1747-423X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2021.2018516

Framing the frontier – Tracing issues related to soybean expansion in transnational public spheres

Author(s): Mempel, F. & E. Corbera
Published in: Global Environmental Change, 2021, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102308

Which forests could be protected by corporate zero deforestation commitments? A spatial assessment

Author(s): Floris Leijten, Sarah Sim, Henry King, Peter H Verburg
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/6, 2020, Page(s) 064021, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8158

Does agricultural trade reduce pressure on land ecosystems? Decomposing drivers of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production

Author(s): Nicolas Roux, Thomas Kastner, Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 181, 2021, Page(s) 106915, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106915

The misinterpretation of structure effects of the LMDI and an alternative index decomposition

Author(s): Roux, N.; Plank, B.
Published in: MethodsX, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 101698, ISSN 2215-0161
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.10.010

Eighty-six EU policy options for reducing imported deforestation

Author(s): Bager, S., U.M. Persson & T.N.P. dos Reis
Published in: One Earth, 2021, ISSN 2590-3330
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.011

Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals

Author(s): Coenen, J., L.M. Glass & L. Sanderink
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2021, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-021-01007-9

Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test

Author(s): Kehoe, L., T.N.P. dos Reis, P. Meyfroidt, S. Bager, R. Seppelt, T. Kuemmerle, E. Berenguer, M. Clark, K. Frankel Davis, E. K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, K.N. Farrell, C. Friis, H. Haberl, T. Kastner, K.L. Murtough, U.M. Persson, A. Romero-Munoz, C. O’Connell, V.V.Schafer, M. Virah-Sawmy, Y. le Polain de Waroux & J. Kiesecker
Published in: One Earth, 2020, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013

Blockchain is not a silver bullet for supply chain sustainability

Author(s): Bager, S.L., C. Singh & M. Persson
Published in: Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2022, ISSN 2666-0490
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100163

Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners

Author(s): Pedersen, A.F.; Nielsen, J.O.; Friis, C.
Published in: Environmental Science and Policy, 2021, ISSN 1462-9011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.02.002

The role of holiday styles in shaping the carbon footprint of leisure travel within the European Union

Author(s): Laroche, P.S.J.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Kastner, T.; Verburg, P.H.
Published in: Tourism Management, Issue 02615177, 2022, ISSN 0261-5177
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104630

The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers

Author(s): Qin, S.; Kuemmerle, T.; Meyfroidt, P.
Published in: Conservation Letters, 2022, ISSN 1755-263X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12859

Assessing the contribution of mobility in the European Union to rubber expansion

Author(s): Laroche, P. C. S. J.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Kastner, T.; Verburg, P.H.
Published in: Ambio, 2021, ISSN 0044-7447
Publisher: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01579-x

Trading deforestation - why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

Author(s): Reis, N.P. dos, V.G. de Faria, G. Russo Lopes, G. Sparovek, C. West, R. Rajão, M. Napolitano Ferreira, M.M.S. Elvira & R.S.T. do Valle
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2021, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac358d

Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil's Cerrado in Matopiba

Author(s): Russo Lopes, G.; Bastos Lima, M.G.; dos Reis, T.N.P.
Published in: World Development, Issue 139, 2020, Page(s) 105316, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105316

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Author(s): Meyfroidt, P.; Bremond, A.de; Ryan, C.M.
Published in: PNAS, Issue 25, 2022, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: US National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109217118

Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences

Author(s): Coenen, J.; Newig, J.; Meyfroidt, P.
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue 119, 2022, Page(s) 106136, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106136

Patterning conservation flows: How formal and informal networks shape transnational conservation practice

Author(s): Persson, J.. S. Qin & J. Zähringer
Published in: Conservation and Society AOP, 2022, ISSN 0975-3133
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_79_21

Large differences in livelihood responses and outcomes to increased conservation enforcement in a protected area

Author(s): Persson, J., S. Ford, A. Keophoxay, O. Mertz, J. Østergaard Nielsen, T. Vongvisouk & M. Zörner
Published in: Human Ecology, Issue 49, 2021, Page(s) 597-616, ISSN 0300-7839
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-021-00267-4

Gold, friction and resistance in a globalised land system: the case of Tanzania

Author(s): Frohn Pedersen, A.; Østergaard Nielsen, J.; Friis, C.
Published in: Journal of Land Use Science, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 1747-423X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2022.2063958

Methods to Assess the Impacts and Indirect Land Use Change Caused by Telecoupled Agricultural Supply Chains: A Review

Author(s): Claudia Parra Paitan, Peter Verburg
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 11/4, 2019, Page(s) 1162, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su11041162

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas

Author(s): Siyu Qin, Rachel E. Golden Kroner, Carly Cook, Anteneh T. Tesfaw, Rowan Braybrook, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Claire Poelking, Michael B. Mascia
Published in: Conservation Biology, Issue 33/6, 2019, Page(s) 1275-1285, ISSN 0888-8892
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13365

Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets

Author(s): Perrine C.S.J. Laroche, Catharina J.E. Schulp, Thomas Kastner, Peter H. Verburg
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 62, 2020, Page(s) 102066, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102066

Understanding the Stickiness of Commodity Supply Chains Is Key to Improving Their Sustainability

Author(s): Tiago N.P. dos Reis, Patrick Meyfroidt, Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, Chris West, Toby Gardner, Simon Bager, Simon Croft, Michael J. Lathuillière, Javier Godar
Published in: One Earth, Issue 3/1, 2020, Page(s) 100-115, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.012

Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Author(s): Johanna Coenen, Simon Bager, Patrick Meyfroidt, Jens Newig, Edward Challies
Published in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1756-932X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1901

Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice

Author(s): Boillat, S., A. Martin, T. Adams, D. Daniel, J. Llopis, E. Zepharovich, C. Oberlack, G. Sonderegger, P. Bottazzi, E. Corbera, C.I. Speranza & U. Pascual
Published in: Journal of Land Use Science, 2020, ISSN 1747-423X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2020.1737257

How are institutions included in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects? Developing and testing a diagnostic approach on the World Bank’s Forest and Community project in Salta, Argentina

Author(s): Busck-Lumholt, E. Corbera & O. Mertz
Published in: World Development, 2022, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105956

Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science

Author(s): L.M. Busck-Lumholt, J. Coenen, J. Persson, A. F. Pedersen
Published in: Journal of Land Use Science, Issue 17474248, 2022, ISSN 1747-4248
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2022.2086640

Accounting for land use changes beyond the farm-level in sustainability assessments: The impact of cocoa production

Author(s): Parra-Paitan, C.; Verburg, P.H.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment, 2022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154032

Event-based sustainable commodity supply chains on blockchain

Author(s): Bager, S.L., B. Düdder, F. Henglein, J.M. Hebert & H. Wu
Published in: Frontiers in Blockchain, 2022, ISSN 2624-7852
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
DOI: 10.3389/fbloc.2022.846783

The ambiguity of transparency in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector of Tanzania

Author(s): Pedersen, A.F.; Nielsen, J.O.; Mempel, F.
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.101004

The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations

Author(s): Fanning, Andrew L.; O'Neill,Daniel W.; Hickel, Jason; Roux, N.
Published in: Nature Sustainability, 2021, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00799-z

Quantifying and attributing land use-induced carbon emissions to biomass consumption: A critical assessment of existing approaches

Author(s): Bhan, M., S. Gingrich, N. Roux, J. Le Noe, T. Kastner, S. Matej, F. Schwarzmueller & K.-H. Erb
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2021, ISSN 1095-8630
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112228

Local deforestation spillovers induced by forest moratoria: evidence from Indonesia

Author(s): Leijten, F., S. Sim, H. King & P.H. Verburg
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue 109, 2021, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105690

Re-MEDIAting distant impacts - how Western media make sense of deforestation in different Brazilian biomes

Author(s): Mempel, F.; Bidone, F.
Published in: Environmental Sociology, Issue 23251042, 2022, ISSN 2325-1042
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2022.2106087

Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda

Author(s): Cotta, B.; Coenen, J.; Challies, E.
Published in: Earth System Governance, 2022, ISSN 2589-8116
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2022.100142

The influence of company sourcing patterns on the adoption and effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in Brazil’s soy supply chain

Author(s): Leijten, F., T.N.P. dos Reis, S. Sim, P.H. Verburg & P. Meyfroidt
Published in: Environmental Science and Policy, Issue 128, 2021, Page(s) 208-2015, ISSN 1462-9011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.032

Sustainability strategies by companies in the global coffee sector

Author(s): Simon L. Bager, Eric F. Lambin
Published in: Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0964-4733
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2596

Telecoupling visualizations through a network lens: a systematic review

Author(s): Gabi Sonderegger, Christoph Oberlack, Jorge C. Llopis, Peter H. Verburg, Andreas Heinimann
Published in: Ecology and Society, Issue 25/4, 2020, Page(s) 47, ISSN 1708-3087
Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
DOI: 10.5751/es-11830-250447