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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental protection has emerged as a global priority in the contemporary context. As pivotal actors in the transition towards sustainable development, companies play a crucial role through the adoption of environmental innovations. This study investigates how organisational characteristics—specifically geographical location, business ...
Carlos de las Heras‐Rosas +3 more
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INSURANCE INSTRUMENTS PROMOTE AGRICULTURAL CULTIVATION
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2018 Agriculture is one of the basic human activities. To operate this affects many factors. One of the most important risks in agricultural activity is the climate and weather conditions. Drought in recent years, negatively affect the results. On the market there are a number of insurance instruments that allow for the significant reduction of the negative
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Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
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This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains. In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks related to different crop enterprises and for different agro-climatic regions and ...
Gurdev Singh
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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture
, 2011 This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank. It is deliberately not a collation of case studies, but rather a practical overview of the subject. The purpose of this paper is to introduce task managers and development professionals, who are not ...
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsThe analysis of herding households’ agricultural insurance purchasing behavior under climate risk can help improve the agricultural insurance system in pastoral areas in China.By constructing an analytical framework of “climate change, risk perception ...
Xiao-long Chen +2 more
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Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments, and Incentives for Land Use Change in Agriculture: A Preliminary Assessment [PDF]
Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments, Supplemental Revenue Assistance, corn, wheat, Agricultural and Food Policy, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Risk and Uncertainty,
Carriazo, Fernando +2 more
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Agricultural Insurance Schemes II
, 2008 Index insurances, diversely from traditional agricultural insurances, do not refer to the actual farm losses but to the losses evaluated from an index. The study evaluates the feasibility of index insurances for EU and makes a cross-validation based on the yield loss risk calculated from FADN data.
BIELZA DIAZ-CANEJA Maria +3 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has consistently advanced sustainability goals, with the 2019 European Green Deal (EGD) serving as a cornerstone initiative aligned with global sustainability frameworks. Yet, the combined impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic, energy market volatility, and supply chain disruptions has amplified the urgency of evaluating ...
Edoardo Crocco +3 more
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