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 evalua...

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Autores principales:	Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Andrés Viña, Emilio F. Moran, Yue Dou, Mateus Batistella, Jianguo Liu
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:98beeae69a334e6fbbf6236c415a36872021-12-02T18:48:23ZSocioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems10.1038/s41598-021-98256-62045-2322https://doaj.org/article/98beeae69a334e6fbbf6236c415a36872021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98256-6https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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 globally important soybean producing region (Mato Grosso in Brazil). Although this region is influenced by a strong telecoupling process (i.e., soybean trade with national and international markets), intracouplings pose significant effects on deforestation and economic growth within focal municipalities. Furthermore, it generates pericoupling effects (e.g., deforestation) on adjacent municipalities, which precede economic benefits on adjacent systems, and may occur during and after the soybean production takes place. These results show that while economic benefits of the production of agricultural commodities for global markets tend to be localized, their environmental costs tend to be spatially widespread. As deforestation also occurred in adjacent areas beyond focal areas with economic development, this study has significant implications for sustainability in an increasingly metacoupled world.Ramon Felipe Bicudo da SilvaAndrés ViñaEmilio F. MoranYue DouMateus BatistellaJianguo LiuNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
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description	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 globally important soybean producing region (Mato Grosso in Brazil). Although this region is influenced by a strong telecoupling process (i.e., soybean trade with national and international markets), intracouplings pose significant effects on deforestation and economic growth within focal municipalities. Furthermore, it generates pericoupling effects (e.g., deforestation) on adjacent municipalities, which precede economic benefits on adjacent systems, and may occur during and after the soybean production takes place. These results show that while economic benefits of the production of agricultural commodities for global markets tend to be localized, their environmental costs tend to be spatially widespread. As deforestation also occurred in adjacent areas beyond focal areas with economic development, this study has significant implications for sustainability in an increasingly metacoupled world.
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title	Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
title_short	Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
title_full	Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
title_fullStr	Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
title_full_unstemmed	Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
title_sort	socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
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Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems

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