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Welcome to Join Telecoupling and Metacoupling Programs at IALE-NA

Published on November 18, 2024
Two organized telecoupling/metacoupling programs will be hold at the 2025 IALE-NA annual meeting.
Call for Papers for the I-GUIDE 2024 Forum

Published on June 11, 2024
The I-GUIDE 2024 Forum, Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability, is coming up October 14-16 in Jackson, Wyoming, USA.I-GUIDE invites researchers, AI and data scientists, and cyberinfrastructure experts to share their wo...
Call for papers from Global Sustainability - Cambridge University Press

Published on May 6, 2024
A special issue of Global Sustainability - Cambridge University Press, calls for papers to the theme of “Geography, Telecoupling, and Sustainability".
Workshop on Metacoupling

Published on May 6, 2024
A workshop on metacoupling was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 3, 2024.Metacoupling: A New Interdisciplinary Frontier for Global Sustainability
I-GUIDE Forum 2024: Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability

Published on May 6, 2024
Save the date for the I-GUIDE Forum 2024: Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability! Join us in Jackson, WY from October 14-16 for groundbreaking discussions and insights into harnessing technology for a sustainable...
Interaction between humans and the environment is focus of 15 new NSF-funded projects

Published on August 17, 2022
From Southwestern deserts to tropical mangrove reefs, everywhere humans live or go we impact the environment, and the environment impacts us. Fifteen new projects totaling more than $21.6 million funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation will ex...
Journal seeks telecoupling framework applications

Published on December 14, 2020
A special issue in an international journal invites articles on soil conservation and environmental sustainability. Deadline: April 30.
Telecoupling gains entry in new encyclopedia

Published on October 29, 2020
Telecoupling, , has been included in a new reference work for Geography: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. The 15-volume work, published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., both in...
International scientists seek pathways to sustainability

Published on September 4, 2020
An international group of sustainability scientists work to understand the most effective targets at which to aim to enabling leaders in government, business, civil society and academia to spark transformative changes towards a more just and su...
Book applies telecoupling framework to land-use change

Published on May 20, 2020
A new book brings together leading experts on telecoupling and land-use.Telecoupling -- Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecouplin...
All global sustainability is local

Published on January 1, 2020
Nations across the world are following a United Nations blueprint to build a more sustainable future – but a new study shows that blueprint leads less to a castle in the sky, and more to a house that needs constant remodeling.
NSF awards more than $18 million to better comprehend links between environmental and human aspects of ecosystems

Published on December 10, 2019
The social and environmental costs of wildfires have grown dramatically in recent decades, and more information is needed to understand how communities can better organize in the face of this growing hazard, scientists have found.Now, researchers fun...
Young scientist summer program announced

Published on November 29, 2018
Since 1977, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)’s annual three-month Young Scientists Summer Program offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with the institute’s ongoing resea...
NSF awards $15 million to understand how people can better interact with the environment

Published on September 24, 2018
A toxic red tide, or harmful algae bloom, is killing swaths of marine life and affecting the health of people living along Florida's southwest coast. Nationwide, harmful algae blooms cost an estimated $50 million each year. Excess nutrients such as n...
Where the wild things are focus of upcoming special edition

Published on July 27, 2018
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Importing food damages domestic environment

Published on May 7, 2018
The decisions domestic farmers must make as imported food changes the crop market can damage the environment.
Group seeks survey takers to assess global collaboration

Published on May 7, 2018
The Mountain Sentinels collaborative network is working to understand the most important activities and the most significant barriers to success common across collaborative research projects worldwide. The group has developed a survey to gather insig...
NSF awards $13 million for research on how humans, environment interact

Published on September 12, 2017
Delta: A place where sediment carried downstream by a river enters the sea, forming a fan of sand or mud.Although deltas make up just 1 percent of the world's land, they're home to more than half a billion people -- and to fertile ecosystems such as ...
The sand trap: Demand outpaces caution – and knowledge

Published on September 8, 2017
Sand, spanning miles of beaches, carpeting vast oceans and deserts, is a visual metaphor for limitless resources. Yet researchers in this week’s journal Science seize another metaphor – sand in an hourglass, marking time running out.S...
Scholars, with CHANS-Net members’ help, identify sustainability’s 40 biggest questions

Published on July 13, 2017
While science usually gets recognized for churning up big answers, Michigan State University (MSU) researchers are mining the big questions. Sustainability scholars across the globe have made the leap to embrace integrative and interdisciplinary rese...

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