COUPLED is a four-year, European Training Network granted by the EC under Horizon 2020 and coordinated by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. COUPLED trains 15 early stage researchers in order to better integrate research, innovation and social responsibility framed around the concept of telecoupling.
Human consumption of food and agricultural products has a significant impact on the environment and the societies in the regions where they are produced. Different sectors, consumers, businesses and politicians are increasingly demanding more environmental and social sustainable land-use both inside and outside Europe. Yet, there is increasing recognition of the limitations of current research approaches to adequately understand and address the increasing complexity of land system dynamics, which are often characterised by strong non-linearity, feedback mechanisms, and local contexts, and where places of production, trade, and consumption of land-based products are increasingly separated.
COUPLED trains early stage researchers capable of:
COUPLED receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765408.
Consortium: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Bern, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Université catholique de Louvain, The Forest Trust, Unilever U.K.
GLP Themes: Telecoupling of land use systems, Land governance, Land change trade-offs for ecosystem services and biodiversity , Land management systems, Urban-rural interactions, Land use and conflict
GLP Methods: Co-production and transdisciplinarity, Decision Making, Decision support tools and approaches, Institutional Analysis, Integrative Assessments, Interdisciplinary methods, Modelling, Past land use/historical land use reconstruction, Qualitative social science methods (interviews, observations, document review, surveys), Remote Sensing, Social network analysis, Spatial Analysis, Supply and value chains, Synthesis/meta-analysis/meta-study
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology...
Spain
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences...
Austria
Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern
Switzerland
Humboldt-University Berlin, Geography Department
Germany
University of Louvain & Stanford University
Belgium
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern
Switzerland
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Belgium
Humboldt University Berlin
Germany
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
VU University Amsterdam; WSL Switzerland
Netherlands
Columbia University
United States
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability...
United States