Even at the uttermost ends of the Earth: how seabirds telecouple the Beagle Channel with regional and global processes that affect environmental conservation and social-ecological sustainability

Rey, Andrea Raya; Pizarro, J. Cristóbal; Anderson, Christopher; Huettmann, Falk

doi:10.5751/es-09771-220431

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“…Hoffman et al 2017), human migration (Carlson et al 2018, tourism (Raya Rey et al 2017), payments for ecosystem services (Yang et al 2018), transnational product certification schemes (Carrasco et al 2017, Eakin et al 2017, disease spread (Easter et al 2018), transnational land grabbing (Oberlack et al 2018), technology transfer (Zimmerer et al 2018), and information spread (Carrasco et al 2017, Carlson et al 2018.…”

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Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability

Hull¹,

Liu²

2018

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Telecoupling refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions between distant coupled human and natural systems, and has become more extensive and intensive in the globalized era. The integrated framework of telecoupling examines flows of information, energy, matter, people, organisms, and other things such as financial capital and goods and products around the globe. It pinpoints causes and effects arising from engagement of diverse agents in the global sphere. This first special feature on telecoupling includes 16 articles that explore diverse telecouplings including trade, migration, tourism, information exchange, and transnational product certification schemes. Here we synthesize the articles by describing eight overarching lessons learned. These include the impact of physical, social, and institutional distance on telecouplings, key roles of agents and their interrelationships , and the important function of telecoupling in enhancing information signals over long distances. Several lessons directly apply to global sustainability challenges, such as the importance of recognizing trade-offs between local and global sustainability and the need for multi-level management and governance solutions. We also suggest five areas of future research to help propel this nascent field forward and further cement its applicability to addressing global sustainability challenges.

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Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability

Hull¹,

Liu²

2018

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“…Although the telecoupling framework is only developed recently in the last 5 years, there have already been a number of applications to address human-environment related issues in a variety of topics [30][31][32], including species invasion [20], land use change [33], ecosystem services [34], energy [35], forest management [36] and migratory species conservation [26,34,37,38]. Applications of the telecoupling framework are also filling research gaps in sustainable resource management, such as the spillover systems [39].…”

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The Role of Citizen Science in Conservation under the Telecoupling Framework

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Citizen science is increasingly utilized to empower people to participate in conservation work and research. Despite the profusion of citizen science projects in conservation, many lacked a coherent analytical framework for understanding broad-scale transnational human–species interactions. The telecoupling framework provides a means to overcome this limitation. In this study, we use the monarch butterfly, a migratory species of high conservation value, to illustrate how citizen science data can be utilized in telecoupling research to help inform conservation decisions. We also address the challenges and limitations of this approach and provide recommendations on the future direction of citizen-based projects to overcome these challenges. The integration of citizen-based science and the telecoupling framework can become the new frontier in conservation because the applications of citizen science data in distant human–environment relationships have rarely been explored, especially from coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) perspectives.

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“…Telecoupling refers to interactions between coupled human and natural systems over distances [22] (Figure 1). This transdisciplinary framework has been widely applied to better understand the scope of diverse global challenges such as those involving trade [69,70], bird and bat migration [71,72], disease spread [73], transnational land deals [74], and transnational water transfer projects [75]. In this framework, a system is composed of natural components (e.g., biophysical properties, vegetation, wildlife) and human components (e.g., societal values, sociodemographic characteristics, economic properties).…”

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“…Agents, for example, could be individual traders or farmers or larger entities like corporations or government agencies. Causes of a telecoupling are varied and can include economic factors (e.g., trade to promote economic growth [69]), political factors (e.g., long-distance collaboration on land deals dictated by existing political relationships [76]), or environmental factors (e.g., long-distance migration of animals to take advantage of distant food resources [71]). Effects include both socioeconomic and environmental impacts and could either positively or negatively impact sustainability of the system.…”

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“…Effects of telecoupling on terrestrial protected areas are varied, including positive effects seen in the case of outside federal aid rescuing a protected area recovering from a natural disaster [84] and negative effects such as in the case of the rights of indigenous groups in protected areas made more vulnerable via extractive demands from transnational trade flows [85]. Some valuable telecoupling work has been done in marine environments on understanding distal causes and effects of seabird migration [71], the Peruvian fishery industry [88], and mapping 'extra-local' ecosystem services in the marine context [24]. However, a holistic consideration of the diversity of ways in which telecoupling acts in the marine context is needed.…”

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A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

2019

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The world’s oceans face unprecedented anthropogenic threats in the globalized era that originate from all over the world, including climate change, global trade and transportation, and pollution. Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve important roles in conservation of marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, but their success is increasingly challenged in the face of such large-scale threats. Here, we illustrate the utility of adopting the interdisciplinary telecoupling framework to better understand effects that originate from distant places and cross MPA boundaries (e.g., polluted water circulation, anthropogenic noise transport, human and animal migration). We review evidence of distal processes affecting MPAs and the cutting-edge approaches currently used to investigate these processes. We then introduce the umbrella framework of telecoupling and explain how it can help address knowledge gaps that exist due to limitations of past approaches that are centered within individual disciplines. We then synthesize five examples from the recent telecoupling literature to explore how the telecoupling framework can be used for MPA research. These examples include the spatial subsidies approach, adapted social network analysis, telecoupled qualitative analysis, telecoupled supply chain analysis, and decision support tools for telecoupling. Our work highlights the potential for the telecoupling framework to better understand and address the mounting and interconnected socioeconomic and environmental sustainability challenges faced by the growing number of MPAs around the world.

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Even at the uttermost ends of the Earth: how seabirds telecouple the Beagle Channel with regional and global processes that affect environmental conservation and social-ecological sustainability

Cited by 21 publications

References 35 publications

Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability

Telecoupling: A new frontier for global sustainability

The Role of Citizen Science in Conservation under the Telecoupling Framework

A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

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