Dear colleagues, We are excited to inform you that the 2018 Global Land Project-Asia Conference will be held during September 3-5, 2018, in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference theme is: Transitioning to Sustainable Development of Land Systems through Teleconnections and Telecouplings. The conference will bring scientists from around the world together, to discuss progress in the cutting-edge telecoupling research and its applications to improve sustainability in land and other systems.
Flows of information, matter, energy, organisms, people, money, and technology are increasingly connecting people and the environment in one place to those in distant places. To identify and address the enormous impact of distant connections, the award-winning framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, http://www.telecoupling.org) has gained popularity and has been used to investigate the mechanisms and impacts of distant flows on coupled human and natural systems. By using a systematic approach, researchers have revealed telecoupling complexity (e.g., feedbacks, emergent properties, time lags, legacy effects, tipping points, spillover effects), which can inform global sustainable development. The GLP-Asia Conference will have a number of sessions on telecoupling. You are welcome to submit an abstract to one of those sessions, including "Telecoupled flows across scales" [Session No. 18] which is designed to showcase telecoupling studies that use flows across local to global scales as the focal analysis to address important issues relevant to sustainability such as legal and illegal trade, migratory species, and transportation infrastructures; and "Hidden impacts of telecoupled food production and consumption" [Session No. 4] which focuses on using the telecoupling framework to study the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of food production and consumption such as aquaculture expansion, soybean trade and environmental footprints. More information about the GLP-Asia conference can be found here: http://www.glp.taipei.ntu.edu.tw/2018-asia-conference/. The deadline for abstract submission is April 20th, 2018. Please email your abstract to: glp.asia2...@gmail.com<mailto:glp.asia2...@gmail.com>, and specifically your intended session number. If you have any questions, please contact the session organizers Yue Dou (yue...@msu.edu<mailto:yue...@msu.edu>), Anna Herzberger (ajherzber...@gmail.com<mailto:ajherzber...@gmail.com>), or Jianguo (Jack) Liu (li...@msu.edu<mailto:li...@msu.edu>). Thank you for your interest in participating in the telecoupling research and GLP-Asia. Best regards, Jianguo (Jack) Liu Rachel Carson in Sustainability Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48823, USA http://csis.msu.edu/people/jianguo-liu
