CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Social Movements, Institutions and Governance
This article is part of the Research TopicFood System Resilience, Disaster Preparedness & ResponseView all 11 articles
A Metacoupled Approach to Analyzing Multiple Shocks Affecting Multiple Systems
Provisionally accepted
- Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, East Lansing, United States
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[Global shocks such as war, natural disasters, disease, or economic collapse have widespread and transformative consequences. In this manuscript, we apply the integrated framework of metacoupling (human-nature interactions within and across nearby and distant systems) to conceptualize the effects of multiple shocks on multiple coupled human and natural systems. Shocks have substantial social, environmental, and economic impacts on various system components. Using Ukraine's agri-food industry as a demonstration, we analyze how two shocks (Russia-Ukraine war and COVID-19) perpetuate these effects across space and time on Ukraine's interconnected coupled human and natural systems. We specifically focus on impacts on agri-food sector resilience, health and well-being, and socioeconomic livelihood.]
Keywords: Metacoupling framework, Multiple shocks, Resilience and vulnerability, Russia-Ukraine conflict, COVID-19, Agri-food systems
Received: 30 Jun 2025; Accepted: 28 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Waloven, Manning, Remer, Yu, Huang, Jia and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Sydney Waloven, walovens@msu.edu
Jianguo "Jack" Liu, liuji@msu.edu
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