GC081
Telecoupling: Interdisciplinary Frontier in Convergence Science

Session ID#: 160583

Session Description:
The world is increasingly telecoupled (environmentally and socioeconomically interconnected) through the flows of species, people, goods, information, services, water, air, energy, and capital, among others. These flows are made possible through processes such as trade, tourism, water transfer, technology transfer, disease spread, migration, and information dissemination. Furthermore, events tied to climate change, environmental change, hazards, human activities, war, and critical infrastructure failure in one place could have socioeconomic and environmental impacts in places far away around the world, which in turn form feedbacks. Such distant interactions also have broad societal implications for policy making, resource management, disaster control, planning, design, governance, and sustainable development. This session welcomes contributions that address various aspects of distant interactions, such as dynamics, causes, flows, and effects. This session will be of interest to several AGU sections, including  Biogeosciences, Earth and Space Science Informatics, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology, Natural Hazards, and Science and Society.
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]


Primary Convener:  Nicholas Manning, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States and Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nicholas Manning, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
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Kelly Kapsar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Veronica Frans, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, Lawson W Brigham, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Assessment of land use related biodiversity loss across China in the socioeconomic transition (1106431)
Han Zhao, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Akiyuki Kawasaki, The University of Tokyo, Center for Global Commons, Institute for Future Initiatives, Tokyo, Japan
 
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Nicolas Roux1, Karl-Heinz Erb2, Helmut Haberl3, Lisa Kaufmann4 and Simone Gingrich2, (1)Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA, (2)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
 
Evaluating Cascading Disaster Impacts Through the Telecoupling Framework: A Case Study Using Midwest Drought and the Cerrado of Brazil (1120167)
Nicholas Manning and Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
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Robert Luetkemeier and Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Water Resources and Land Use, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
Biotic Homogenization due to Agricultural Commodity Production for Global Markets (1183115)
Andrés Viña, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil and Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, MI, United States