Telecoupled systems connect consumption and other choices in one part of the world with land-use and land-cover change in another. While such connections are increasingly well documented, research on governing telecoupled systems is in its infancy. Drawing on recent discussions in sociology, we argue that models for governing telecoupled systems must consider two types of information flows. Low-bandwidth flows allow for limited information transfer but can take place over greater distances. High-bandwidth flows, by contrast, allow for more complex knowledge transfer but tend to be geographically localized due to the costs of maintaining robust connections. Using a mixed-methods case study of national sustainability certification in the wine sector in Australia and Chile, we argue that Chile's counterintuitive success in diffusing its national sustainability certification relates to its geography, which facilitated high-bandwidth connections. We conclude that telecoupling governance measures, such as jurisdictional commodity certification, need to consider the unique requirements and costs of high-bandwidth connections in allocating institutional investments.

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远程耦合系统治理中的带宽问题：认证澳大利亚和智利的可持续酿酒

远程耦合系统将世界一个地区的消费和其他选择与另一地区的土地利用和土地覆盖变化联系起来。虽然此类连接越来越有据可查，但有关管理远程耦合系统的研究仍处于起步阶段。借鉴社会学最近的讨论，我们认为管理远程耦合系统的模型必须考虑两种类型的信息流。低带宽流允许有限的信息传输，但可以发生在更远的距离上。相比之下，高带宽流允许更复杂的知识转移，但由于维护强大连接的成本，往往在地理上是本地化的。使用澳大利亚和智利葡萄酒行业国家可持续性认证的混合方法案例研究，我们认为智利 在传播其国家可持续性认证方面的违反直觉的成功与其地理位置有关，这促进了高带宽连接。我们得出的结论是，在分配机构投资时，远程耦合治理措施（例如管辖商品认证）需要考虑高带宽连接的独特要求和成本。