Impact of Inter‐Basin Water Transfer Projects on Regional Ecological Security from a Telecoupling Perspective

Yuan, Quan; Wang, Chenxing; Yan, Yan; Wu, Gang; Zhang, Hongxun

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“…As LSS takes steps towards bridging place-based and processual analysis, the telecoupling framework has emerged as an analytical approach that has proven useful for studying land use and human-environment system changes in an increasingly globalised world (e.g., [17,40,41,119,120]). The telecoupling perspective moves the study of land use change forward by highlighting networked and relational aspects of such changes, while maintaining the usefulness of analysing human-environment interactions as complex place-based systems [12,42].…”

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On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Friis

Nielsen

2017

Sustainability

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Land-based production provides societies with indispensable goods such as food, feed, fibre, and energy. Yet, with economic globalisation and global population growth, the environmental and social trade-offs of their production are ever more complex. This is particularly so since land use changes are increasingly embedded in networks of long-distance flows of, e.g., material, energy, and information. The resulting scientific and governance challenge is captured in the emerging telecoupling framework addressing socioeconomic and environmental interactions and feedbacks between distal human-environment systems. Understanding telecouplings, however, entails a number of fundamental analytical problems. When dealing with global connectivity, a central question is how and where to draw system boundaries between coupled systems. In this article, we explore the analytical implications of setting system boundaries in the study of a recent telecoupled land use change: the expansion of Chinese banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. Based on empirical material from fieldwork in Laos in 2014 and 2015, and drawing on key concepts from the 'systems thinking' literature, we illustrate how treating the system and its boundaries as epistemological constructs enable us to capture the differentiated involvement of actors, as well as the socio-economic and environmental effects of this land use change. In discussing our results, the need for more explicit attention to the trade-offs and implications of scale and boundary choices when defining systems is emphasised.

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On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Friis

Nielsen

2017

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“…The metacoupling framework has been applied to the study of water transfer projects, urban watersheds, and non-transboundary watersheds, but has yet to be applied to transboundary watershed systems [20,21,26]. Wang et al highlight the usefulness of the metacoupling framework for integrating social and ecological components in the management of large watersheds within China [27].…”

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“…A key topic of interest is how processes at one level affect the other levels and how spillovers or feedbacks may percolate across levels to affect the sustainability of one part of the system or the whole. Telecoupling is becoming increasingly important in the CHANS literature as the prevalence of distant transactions is increasing [38,39] and has been applied to a variety of water-related contexts [20,21,26,40]. The study of metacoupling is particularly important for understanding global threats like air pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, and water scarcity [25].…”

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“…The CHANS approach allows for the inclusion of multiple human (e.g., economics, demographics, and politics) and natural sectors (e.g., hydrology and ecology). CHANS-related research strategies have been applied to a wide range of water management topics including through SH [20][21][22][23]. While CHANS and SH offer an important advance over other frameworks, one shortcoming is that they do not explicitly allow for the comparison of multiple integrated systems across different spatial scales.…”

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A Metacoupling Framework for Exploring Transboundary Watershed Management

2020

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Water is crucial for ecosystem health and socioeconomic development, but water scarcity is becoming a global concern. Management of transboundary watersheds is inherently challenging and has the potential to lead to conflict over the allocation of water resources. The metacoupling framework, which explores the relationships between coupled human and natural systems that are nested within multiple different scales, has been proposed to inform more holistic management of transboundary watersheds. This paper provides the first attempt to apply a metacoupling framework to a transboundary watershed for an improved integrated understanding of this complex system at multiple spatial scales. It does so with the transnational Limpopo River watershed in Southern Africa, which covers 1.3% of the continent and supports the livelihoods of 18.8 million people living in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a growing gap between water availability and demand; the primary drivers are population growth and agriculture expansion. The novelty of the paper is outlining the importance of applying a metacoupling framework to transboundary watersheds, identifying the limitations to this application, and providing a detailed assessment of the steps needed to complete this application. We also identify directions for future research including application of a metacoupling framework to other transboundary watersheds and exploration of spillover effects and externalities within this and other transboundary watersheds.

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“…The DPSIR framework was developed in 1994 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and has since been renown widely by many scholars in many research discipline [11,12,13,14,15,16,17]; and many others for its advantages and suitability and also applicable to all kind of environmental problem [18]. DPSIR framework help in the understanding of the interrelating factors that alter the environment and as such offer not only a means to address the drivers and the state of the condition, but also the causes and the impact posed to the environment.…”

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Evaluation of Land Cover Change and Vegetation Dynamics Using Remote Sensing and DPSIR Framework in Kebbi State, Nigeria

Aliero¹,

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Assessment of the trends of land cover and vegetation dynamics (VD) using remote sensing (RS) and indicators such as anthropogenic activities and the socio-demographic information is essential in order to make proper planning for sustainable management. This paper attempts to evaluate land cover change (LCC) and VD in Kebbi State, Nigeria using historical Landsat data from 1986-2016 by means of remote sensing. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was later employed using both primary and secondary data for a better understanding of the drivers, the state of the environmental condition, the causes as well as the impact of the change. The images were classified into five thematic land cover classes as Dense Vegetation, shrubs/built area, farmland, bare/grassland and water body by means of Maximum likelihood supervised classification technique in accordance with Anderson classification scheme level 1, with acceptable accuracy. Pre-classification and post-classification change detection (CD) methodologies were executed using Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Image differencing respectively. The study illustrates a steady decline in dense vegetation and shrubs/build areas while farmland and bare/grassland increases, however, water bodies remain unchanged. The DPSIR pin-point that the major drivers of change in the study area have been the pressing need for farming land as the population grows and socioeconomic demands including fuelwood consumption and endemic poverty. Expansion of Farming land, fuelwood consumption and the need for construction materials are identified as the main key elements exerting pressure for the change. The state of the condition indicates a steady decline in dense vegetation and shrubs areas while farmland and bare/grassland are increasing significantly. The impacts include land degradation, the decline in the provision ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity loss through loss of habitats. The study, however, noted that many international and national policies in response to land degradation are channelled toward land restoration and remediating of the environment, through afforestation programs and improving the livelihood of the rural people through providing alternative income sources since they depend heavily on land for sustenance. However, the state governments, communities and individual commonly organized annual tree planting campaign with the main purpose of environmental protection.

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Impact of Inter‐Basin Water Transfer Projects on Regional Ecological Security from a Telecoupling Perspective

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

A Metacoupling Framework for Exploring Transboundary Watershed Management

Evaluation of Land Cover Change and Vegetation Dynamics Using Remote Sensing and DPSIR Framework in Kebbi State, Nigeria

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