Metacoupling

2026

Sept 30 - Manuscript Submission Deadline for Special Issue on telecoupling/metacoupling in the international journal Geography and Sustainability (IF = 8.0). All manuscripts go through the normal peer-review process, and the acceptance and publication of the papers in the special issue will be made when each paper is ready. After all the papers are published, they will be compiled into the special issue.

Aug 9-16 - International Summer School - “Frontiers in Telecoupling and Metacoupling Research for Addressing Global Sustainability Challenges”. Instructors are relevant experts, including members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as authors of papers in Science and Nature family journals and PNAS. In addition to giving lectures, the experts can provide feedback and guidance on participants' research projects. The school will be hybrid – in person at Beijing Normal University (a top university in China) or online (e.g., via Zoom). Deadline to apply for participating in the Summer School’s team-based research projects: May 15, 2026.

Aug. 3-7 - I-GUIDE Forum 2026 & Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Ecosystem Conference. AI & Science: From Geospatial to Convergence. “Telecoupling in social and environmental systems”. University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

April 29 - Plenary lecture, Rethinking Landscape Ecology in a Metacoupled World, IALE–North America 2026 Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, USA

April 28 - Workshop, Metacoupling and Telecoupling: Using Interdisciplinary Frameworks to Connect Landscapes Across Scales (W-04), IALE–North America 2026 Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, USA

April 27 - Organized symposium, Human-Nature Dynamics across Telecoupled and Metacoupled Landscapes (Symposium #5), IALE–North America 2026 Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, USA

April 17 - New interdisciplinary frontier—metacoupling framework for addressing global sustainability challenges, University of Notre Dame — Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, Indiana, USA

Jan 22 - Navigating Financial Metacoupling: Human-Nature Dynamics Under Institutional Complexity and Systemic Risks, SIIIC Conference 2026 — Sustainable and Impact Investments International Conference, 9th Edition

2025

Oct. 21 - Distinguished seminar, New Interdisciplinary Frontier — Metacoupling Framework for Addressing Global Challenges, The University of Hong Kong, China

Oct. 17-20 - Conference thematic session, Operationalizing the Metacoupling Framework for Addressing Global Sustainable Development Challenges (Thematic Session 23), International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability (GEOSUS 2025), Xi'an, China

Oct. 15 - New Interdisciplinary Frontier: Metacoupling Framework and Global Applications / 跨学科研究新前沿：全程耦合框架及其全球应用, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Graduate School, Shanghai, China

April 13-17 - Organized symposium, Dynamic Human-Nature Interactions in a Telecoupled and Metacoupled World (Symposium #11), IALE–North America 2025 Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA