Systems integration for global sustainability

J Liu, H Mooney, V Hull, SJ Davis, J Gaskell, T Hertel… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Many key global sustainability challenges are closely intertwined
(examples are provided in the figure). These challenges include air pollution, biodiversity …

Leveraging the metacoupling framework for sustainability science and global sustainable development

J Liu - National Science Review, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sustainability science seeks to understand human–nature interactions behind sustainability
challenges, but has largely been place-based. Traditional sustainability efforts often solved …

Integration across a metacoupled world

J Liu - Ecology and Society, 2017 - JSTOR
Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving
sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges. Although …

What are the effects of nature conservation on human well-being? A systematic map of empirical evidence from developing countries

MC McKinnon, SH Cheng, S Dupre, J Edmond… - Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Background Global policy initiatives and international conservation organizations have
sought to emphasize and strengthen the link between the conservation of natural …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting geography for sustainability

B Fu - Geography and Sustainability, 2020 - Elsevier
The discipline of geography encompasses both natural and social sciences and has the
natural advantage of enabling the study of sustainability from a transdisciplinary perspective …

Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world

Z Zhao, M Cai, F Wang, JA Winkler, T Connor… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Synergies and tradeoffs among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
within specific locations have been widely studied. However, there is little understanding of …

Punishment and inspection for governing the commons in a feedback-evolving game

X Chen, A Szolnoki - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Utilizing common resources is always a dilemma for community members. While cooperator
players restrain themselves and consider the proper state of resources, defectors demand …

A survey of artificial general intelligence projects for ethics, risk, and policy

S Baum - Global Catastrophic Risk Institute Working Paper, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is AI that can reason across a wide range of domains. It
has long been considered the “grand dream” or “holy grail” of AI. It also poses major issues …

Global relationships between biodiversity and nature-based tourism in protected areas

MG Chung, T Dietz, J Liu - Ecosystem Services, 2018 - Elsevier
The relationships between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services (ES) are
widely debated. However, it is still not clear how biodiversity conservation and ES interact …

First carrot, then stick: how the adaptive hybridization of incentives promotes cooperation

X Chen, T Sasaki, Å Brännström… - Journal of the royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social institutions often use rewards and penalties to promote cooperation. Providing
incentives tends to be costly, so it is important to find effective and efficient policies for the …