New road for telecoupling global prosperity and ecological sustainability

作     者：Dewei Yang Jingjing Cai Vanessa Hull Kaiyong Wang Yin-Phan Tsang Jianguo Liu 

作者机构：Key Lab of Urban Environment and HealthInstitute of Urban EnvironmentChinese Academy of SciencesXiamen361021 China Xiamen Key Lab of Urban MetabolismXiamen361021 China School of EconomicsXiamen UniversityXiamen361005 China Department of Fisheries and WildlifeCenter for Systems Integration and SustainabilityMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichigan 48823 USA Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101 China Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ManagementUniversity of HawaiiManoaHonoluluHawaii 96822 USA 

出 版 物：《Ecosystem Health and Sustainability》 (生态系统健康与可持续性（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第2卷第10期

页      面：24-29页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 02[经济学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China(41371535,41001098,71303198,41201444) the China Scholar ship Council,U.S.National Science Foundation,Michigan AgBio Research,and Michigan State University. 

主　　题：ecological sustainability global prosperity telecoupling the Belt and Road Initiative. 

摘      要：China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, which seeks to expand the ancient land routes that connect China to the Mediterranean Sea and corresponding ocean- based routes, is expanding global cooperation with profound socioeconomic and ecological implications. As China and associated countries are developing specific policies to implement the initiative, it is important to analyze and integrate major relevant issues. In this article, we discuss several major challenges facing the Belt and Road region: complex natural features, mismatched resources, shared ecological issues, and diverse socioeconomic conditions. To meet the challeng-es, we apply the integrated framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) and propose to enhance infrastructure connection, transboundary actions, scientific and cultural exchanges, and institutional innovations within the Belt and Road region;and collaborate with more interna-tional organizations and countries beyond the Belt and Road region for a prosperous and sustainable world.