Description
This project focuses on telecoupling, a concept which helps to explain drivers and outcomes of land-use change by investigating the interrelationship between different actors, drivers, and feedback over long distances.
Given Europe’s large and growing land-use footprint abroad, Europe has a special responsibility to develop concepts and tools needed to achieve sustainability in an interconnected world. Different sectors, consumers, businesses and politicians are increasingly demanding more environmental and social sustainable land-use both inside and outside Europe. Yet, there is increasing recognition of the limitations of current research approaches to adequately understand and address the increasing complexity of land system dynamics, which are often characterized by strong non-linearity, feedback mechanisms, and local contexts, and where places of production, trade, and consumption of land-based products are increasingly separated.
The COUPLED project aims to operationalize the concept of telecoupling in order to address these issues with a new generation of interdisciplinary research.
Publications
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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.
Busck-Lumholt L.M., Corbera E, Mertz O
(2022). World Development, 157: 105956.
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Re-MEDIAting distant impacts - how Western media make sense of deforestation in different Brazilian biomes
Mempel F, Bidone, F
(2022). Environmental Sociology.
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Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in Land System Science
Busck-Lumholt L.M., Coenen J, Persson J.G., Pedersen AF, Mertz O, Corbera E
(2022). Journal of Land Use Science, 17 (1): 386-406.
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Framing the frontier. Tracing issues related to soybean expansion in transnational public spheres
Mempel F, Corbera E
(2021). Global Environmental Change, 69: 102308.
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The ambiguity of transparency in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector of Tanzania
Pedersen AF, Nielsen, JØ , Mempel F, Bager, SL, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Corbera E
(2021). The Extractive Industries and Society.
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Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice
Boillat S, Martin A, Adams T, Daniel D, Llopis J, Zepharovich E, Oberlack C, Sonderegger G, Bottazzi P, Corbera E, Ifejika Speranza C, Pascual U
(2020). Journal of Land Use Science, 15 (1): 1-10.
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Environmental Justice in Telecoupling
Research
Corbera E, Rodríguez-Labajos B, Mempel F, Busck-Lumholt L.M.
(2019). In: C. Friis, J. Ø. Nielsen, Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland.