Assessing temporal couplings in social&amp;#8211;ecological island systems: historical deforestation and soil loss on Mauritius (Indian Ocean)

Norder, Sietze J.; Seijmonsbergen, A.C.; Rughooputh, S. D. D. V.; Loon, E. Emiel van; Tatayah, Vikash; Kamminga, A. Timo; Rijsdijk, Kenneth F.

doi:10.5751/es-09073-220129

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“…Mauritius is therefore an ideal location to explore the role of humans in extinction events, because it is a rare case of an island where human impact on ecosystems and written historical records commence simultaneously (Vaughan & Wiehe , Brouard , Grove , Moree , Grihault , Cheke & Hume , Floore & Jayasena , Norder et al . ).…”

Section: Radiocarbon (14c) Dates Of Bulk Sediment Samples From Mare Tmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The second fire zone, between ca 1787 and 1833, commences during the latter stages of the French governance with the expansion of sugar cane agriculture, and includes the arrival of the British and the industrialization of agriculture (Norder et al . ). During much of the British governance fire activity remained low.…”

Section: Radiocarbon (14c) Dates Of Bulk Sediment Samples From Mare Tmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Section: Radiocarbon (14c) Dates Of Bulk Sediment Samples From Mare Tmentioning

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“…He observed that in several places locally grown food crops were replaced with export crops such as sugar cane. The environmental legacies of the sugar cane plantation economies that were operational in Humboldt's time are now becoming visible (Norder et al., ), but Humboldt already saw them emerging. For example, he noted the negative consequences of deforestation and irrigation on soil loss and lowering of water‐tables.…”

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859): Connecting geodiversity, biodiversity and society

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2019

Journal of Biogeography

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“…As a return, money flows in the opposite direction from the importing country to the exporting country. Through trade, an importing country substitutes these resources that they would otherwise need to consume from their own resources (Norder et al 2017). Thus, along with the flow of physical products and money, the environmental assets consumed in production travel from the exporting country to the importing country and can be thought of as being substituted from the importing country's resources.…”

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Trade in the telecoupling framework: evidence from the metals industry

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Xu³

2018

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ABSTRACT. As a conceptual framework for understanding contemporary sustainability challenges, telecoupling emphasizes the importance of socioeconomic and environmental interactions over long distances. These long-distance interactions can occur through multiple human activities. We focus on international trade, a major channel of telecoupling flows, and in particular on the international trade of metals. We use the data of physical products and embedded greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trade in the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to quantitatively examine how countries contribute to both economic and environmental flows through the trade of metals, but also how that contribution varies depending on their position in the global value chain (GVC) of contemporary international trade. This analysis is built on previously developed techniques for decomposing gross exports of products, which we apply to examine embedded GHG emissions. We make comparisons between countries' contributions to flows of economic value versus embedded GHG emissions, but also examine contributions beyond total volumes of trade and bilateral trade. Specifically, we quantify the economic and environmental spillover effects that occur in contemporary international trade because of the GVC in which flows of intermediate goods form components in other subsequently traded goods. We interpret differences between countries' contributions to the flows of economic value versus embedded GHG emissions as being related to the intensity and efficiency of resource use during production. In turn, differences in contributions to direct trade flows versus spillover flows are related to their positions in the GVC. Subsequently, we discuss other elements of the telecoupling framework in trade, i.e., agents, causes, and effects. Quantitatively incorporating these telecoupling framework elements alongside spillover flows will enable investigation of dynamics and relationships that traditional trade theories, data, and models do not currently account for well. Key Words: global value chain; international trade; metal industry; telecoupling framework; world input-output database INTRODUCTIONThe conceptual framework of telecoupling (Liu et al. 2013(Liu et al. , 2015 highlights the importance of socioeconomic and environmental interactions over large distances for understanding contemporary sustainability challenges. The framework integrates five elements: coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), flows, agents, causes, and effects. Local interactions within CHANS are mediated by agents making decisions, with socioeconomic and environmental causes and effects. Furthermore, in the telecoupling framework, CHANS are the origin and destination of long-distance interactions, connected by material and information flows, and can be distinguished from those that are sending systems, those that are receiving systems, and those that are recipients of spillover flows from the interaction of other systems. As highlighted previously (e.g., Liu et al. 2013), longdistance telecou...

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Assessing temporal couplings in social–ecological island systems: historical deforestation and soil loss on Mauritius (Indian Ocean)

Cited by 29 publications

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Mauritius on fire: Tracking historical human impacts on biodiversity loss

Mauritius on fire: Tracking historical human impacts on biodiversity loss

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859): Connecting geodiversity, biodiversity and society

Trade in the telecoupling framework: evidence from the metals industry

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