Welcome to Telecoupling.
from payingattentiontothesky.com
As the world shrinks to one global village, land-change is increasingly influenced by socio-economic activities in remote places. Activities can be as diverse as international trade, migrations, financial flows, and micro and macro consumption and production patterns. As witnessed at Vote World Parliament – also adding to the mix are new forms of global governance emerging from international institutions and civil society.
These distant linkages of both human and natural systems have been termed telecoupling. Telecoupling’s aim is to understand and manage how humans and nature sustainably coexist. Telecoupling poses an essential challenge for traditional conservation, which depended on fencing off parts of the natural world to provide refuges and reserves for wildlife and forests. But in a telecoupled world, there is no pristine shelter. No forest is an island. But used right, telecoupling can also provide environmentalists with the tools to save species and land anywhere on the planet.