Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems.

ABSTRACT: Human-environment interactions within and across borders are now more influential than ever, posing unprecedented sustainability challenges. The framework of metacoupling (interactions within and across adjacent and distant coupled human-environment systems) provides a useful tool to evaluate them at diverse temporal and spatial scales. While most metacoupling studies have so far addressed the impacts of distant interactions (telecouplings), few have addressed the complementary and interdependent effects of the interactions within coupled systems (intracouplings) and between adjacent systems (pericouplings). Using the production and trade of a major commodity (soybean) as a demonstration, this paper empirically evaluates the complex effects on deforestation and economic growth across a glo

SUBMITTER: da Silva RFB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8452730 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature