The article "Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World" by Liu et al. (2013) introduces a comprehensive framework to understand and manage sustainability in a world characterized by increasing interactions between distant places. The framework, called telecoupling, integrates socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, addressing the limitations of previous research that often treated distant forces as exogenous variables. Telecoupling is a logical extension of coupled human and natural systems, incorporating five major components: coupled human and natural systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects. The authors illustrate the framework using two examples: soybean trade between Brazil and China, and the spread of the red imported fire ant (RIFA) from South America to other countries. They highlight the implications of the framework for research and policy, emphasizing the importance of considering feedback loops, spillover systems, and the complex interrelationships among different types of distant interactions. The framework aims to help identify knowledge gaps, promote sustainable policies, and enhance understanding of distant interactions to achieve socioeconomic and environmental sustainability at local to global levels.The article "Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World" by Liu et al. (2013) introduces a comprehensive framework to understand and manage sustainability in a world characterized by increasing interactions between distant places. The framework, called telecoupling, integrates socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, addressing the limitations of previous research that often treated distant forces as exogenous variables. Telecoupling is a logical extension of coupled human and natural systems, incorporating five major components: coupled human and natural systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects. The authors illustrate the framework using two examples: soybean trade between Brazil and China, and the spread of the red imported fire ant (RIFA) from South America to other countries. They highlight the implications of the framework for research and policy, emphasizing the importance of considering feedback loops, spillover systems, and the complex interrelationships among different types of distant interactions. The framework aims to help identify knowledge gaps, promote sustainable policies, and enhance understanding of distant interactions to achieve socioeconomic and environmental sustainability at local to global levels.