Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Review Criteria
3. Overview of Five Years of Telecoupling Research
4. Emergent Themes from the Telecoupling Literature
5. Future Directions for Telecoupling Research
6. Conclusion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Kapsar, K.E.; Hovis, C.L.; Bicudo da Silva, R.F.; Buchholtz, E.K.; Carlson, A.K.; Dou, Y.; Du, Y.; Furumo, P.R.; Li, Y.; Torres, A.; et al. Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1033. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041033
Kapsar KE, Hovis CL, Bicudo da Silva RF, Buchholtz EK, Carlson AK, Dou Y, Du Y, Furumo PR, Li Y, Torres A, et al. Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years. Sustainability. 2019; 11(4):1033. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041033
Chicago/Turabian StyleKapsar, Kelly E., Ciara L. Hovis, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Erin K. Buchholtz, Andrew K. Carlson, Yue Dou, Yueyue Du, Paul R. Furumo, Yingjie Li, Aurora Torres, and et al. 2019. "Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years" Sustainability 11, no. 4: 1033. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041033
APA StyleKapsar, K. E., Hovis, C. L., Bicudo da Silva, R. F., Buchholtz, E. K., Carlson, A. K., Dou, Y., Du, Y., Furumo, P. R., Li, Y., Torres, A., Yang, D., Wan, H. Y., Zaehringer, J. G., & Liu, J. (2019). Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years. Sustainability, 11(4), 1033. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041033