Nan Jia

Nan Jia is an Associate Researcher in the Center of System Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University whose research focuses on land-system sustainability, telecoupling and metacoupling processes, and the resilience of coupled human–natural systems under multiple global crises. With an interdisciplinary background spanning geography, environmental science, and sustainability studies, her work integrates spatial analysis, network science, and GeoAI approaches to examine how distant socioeconomic interactions reshape land use, food trade, urban systems, and ecosystem services. She has led and contributed to studies on global food trade resilience, urban inequality under climate change, and cross-scale environmental governance, with publications in journals such as Communications Earth & Environment and Sustainable Cities and Society. As a Global Land Programme member, her research advances understanding of cross-regional land-system dynamics and supports evidence-based strategies for sustainable development and adaptive land governance.