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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel +2 more
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Multi-Criteria versus Data Envelopment Analysis for Assessing the Performance of Biogas Plants [PDF]
This paper compares multi-criteria decision aiding (MCDA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) approaches for assessing renewable energy plants, in order to determine their performance in terms of economic, environmental, and social criteria and ...
Reinhard Madlener +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri +2 more
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Modelling regional maize market and transport distances for biogas production in Germany [PDF]
Our location model aims to simulate location decisions for biogas plants based on profit maximisation to generate regional demand functions for maize and corresponding plant size structure and transport distances.
Delzeit, Ruth +2 more
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The role of energy policy in agricultural biogas energy production in Visegrad countries
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2017 Energy production by agricultural biogas plants has recently recorded considerable growth in Visegrad countries. The development was enhanced by European Union’s efforts to increase the proportion of energy produced from renewable sources. The paper aims
Chodkowska-Miszczuk Justyna +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
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Innovative educational course II: Modelling of odour dispersion from agricultural biogas plants [PDF]
, 2017 In recent years, the European Union is putting a growing emphasis on constructing agricultural biogas plants, especially in the Czech-Polish border region.
Loskot, J., Jan Loskot
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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Water stress: Opportunities for supply chain research
Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Driven by climate change and overuse, water stress is a worsening sustainability concern that threatens businesses and communities across the globe. Leading global organizations such as the United Nations have expressed an urgent need for sustainable water management strategies across nations and economies.
Dustin Cole +4 more
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Data envelopment analysis for assessing the efficiency of biogas plants: capabilities and limitations [PDF]
Journal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture, 2010 In this paper two different approaches of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method were used for assessing the efficiency of 10 Bavarian agricultural biogas plants. In the first approach, biogas plants were considered as energy conversion systems using
Đatkov Đorđe, Effenberger Mathias
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