COUPLED - Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use
Abstract
Society depends on land for food, feed, fibre and energy, but the detrimental outcomes of unsustainable land practices are becoming apparent. Ensuring sustainable land use is a key challenge of the 21st century yet hard to achieve in an increasingly interconnected world where policies, consumer demands and environmental change in one region may affect how land is used in far-away places. We face a significant knowledge gap regarding the processes related to land use that link distant places – or telecouplings – and how these processes could be governed towards sustainability. This knowledge gap means that companies, institutions and policy makers lack tools to ensure sustainable land use in a globalised world.COUPLED addresses this knowledge gap by educating researchers and entrepreneurs in assessing and governing land use in a systemic way, accounting for the opportunities and threats arising from distal links between Europe and other regions. Embedded in an interdisciplinary network, the overall objective of COUPLED is to operationalise the new concept of telecouplings to support sustainable governance of human-environment interactions under global change. COUPLED delivers rich analytic tools, new understandings of the functioning of globalised socio-ecological systems, and identify where and how private and public organisations can intervene to make sustainable land use decisions, avoiding unwanted outcomes. The network gathers partners across the range of natural and social sciences to ensure excellence in scientific, institutional and technological innovation.Working closely with large companies, SMEs, NGOs, international organisations and dministrative bodies, the ESRs learn how to move between science and practice, become highly attractive to employers, and build successful careers in research, consulting, industry or governance. The project thus contributes to Europe’s leading position for a transformation towards sustainable land use.The Early Stage Researcher working at the Institute of Social Ecology is focused on telecouplings related to trade with biomass-based products and uses a variety of biophysical socioecological indicators such as the embodied HANPP and others.
Publikationen
Analyzing drivers of global biophysical flows in a telecoupled world using the embodied HANPP indicator
Autoren: Roux, N; Laroche, P; Haberl, H; Erb, KH Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth
Autoren: Otero, I; Farrell, KN; Pueyo, S; Kallis, G; Kehoe, L; Haberl, H; Plutzar, C; Hobson, P; Garcia-Marquez, J; Rodriguez-Labajos, B; Martin, JL; Erb, KH; Schindler, S; Nielsen, J; Skorin, T; Settele, J; Essl, F; Gomez-Baggethun, E; Brotons, L; Rabitsch, W; Schneider, F; Pe'er, G Jahr: 2020
Journal articles
Does agricultural trade reduce pressure on land ecosystems? Decomposing drivers of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production
Autoren: Roux, N; Kastner, T; Erb, KH; Haberl, H Jahr: 2021
Journal articles
Governing Land Use Beyond Borders. COUPLED White Paper. Humboldt-University Berlin
Autoren: Bager, S; Coenen, J; Nielsen, J; Trommler, K; Haberl, H Jahr: 2021
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations
Autoren: Fanning, AL; O'Neill, DW; Hickel, J; Roux, N Jahr: 2022
Journal articles
Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test Comment
Autoren: Kehoe, L; dos Reis, TNP; Meyfroidt, P; Bager, S; Seppelt, R; Kuemmerle, T; Berenguer, E; Clark, M; Davis, KF; zu Ermgassen, EKHJ; Farrell, KN; Friis, C; Haberl, H; Kastner, T; Murtough, KL; Persson, UM; Romero-Munoz, A; O'Connell, C; Schafer, VV; Virah-Sawmy, M; de Waroux, YL; Kiesecker, J Jahr: 2020
Journal articles
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
Autoren: Meyfroidt, P; de Bremond, A; Ryan, CM; Archer, E; Aspinall, R; Chhabra, A; Camara, G; Corbera, E; DeFries, R; Diaz, S; Dong, JW; Ellis, EC; Erb, KH; Fisher, JA; Garrett, RD; Golubiewski, NE; Grau, HR; Grove, JM; Haberl, H; Heinimann, A; Hostert, P; Jobbagy, EG; Kerr, S; Kuemmerle, T; Lambin, EF; Lavorel, S; Lele, S; Mertz, O; Messerli, P; Metternicht, G; Munroe, DK; Nagendra, H; Nielsen, JO; Ojima, DS; Parker, DC; Pascual, U; Porter, JR; Ramankutty, N; Reenberg, A; Chowdhury, RR; Seto, KC; Seufert, V; Shibata, H; Thomson, A; Ii, BTL; Urabe, J; Veldkamp, T; Verburg, PH; Zeleke, G; zu Ermgassen, EKHJ Jahr: 2022
Journal articles
Embodied HANPP of feed and animal products: Tracing pressure on ecosystems along trilateral livestock supply chains 1986-2013
Autoren: Roux, N; Kaufmann, L; Bhan, M; Le Noe, J; Matej, S; Laroche, P; Kastner, T; Bondeau, A; Haberl, H; Erb, K Jahr: 2022
Journal articles
The misinterpretation of structure effects of the LMDI and an alternative index decomposition.
Autoren: Roux, N; Plank, B; Jahr: 2022
Journal articles
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Autoren: Coenen, J; Sonderegger, G; Newig, J; Meyfroidt, P; Challies, E; Bager, SL; Busck-Lumholt, LM; Corbera, E; Friis, C; Pedersen, AF; Laroche, PCSJ; Paitan, CP; Qin, SY; Roux, N; Zaehringer, JG Jahr: 2023
Journal articles
Product level dataset on embodied human appropriation of net primary production.
Autoren: Roux, N; Kaufmann, L; Matej, S; Kastner, T; Bondeau, A; Haberl, H; Erb, K; Jahr: 2023
Journal articles
Mitarbeiter*Innen
Helmut Haberl
Univ.Prof. Mag. Dr. Helmut Haberl
helmut.haberl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73714
BOKU Project Leader
01.01.2018 - 30.06.2022
Nicolas Roux
Dr. Nicolas Roux MSc.
nicolas.roux@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73735
Project Staff
01.01.2018 - 28.02.2022