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Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pro‐Organic by Design: Choice Architecture Shaping Online Organic Grocery Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer uptake of organic food is shaped by both personal values and the way choices are structured in the retail environment. Unlike prior research, we here investigate how elements of supermarket choice architecture influence organic choices.
John Thøgersen, Darius‐Aurel Frank, Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantitative Approach for Assessing and Monitoring the Social Licence of Forestry to Operate: A New Zealand Case Study

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social Licence to Operate (SLO) is an increasingly strategic concern in forestry, yet its evaluation remains largely qualitative. This study presents the first quantitative framework for assessing SLO in New Zealand's forestry sector, adapted from the Boutilier and Thomson model, originally developed for the mining sector.
Grace B. Villamor, Peter W. Clinton, Tim Payn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Double Materiality as a Decision‐Making Tool for ESG Management and Reporting in Hydroponics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and double materiality can be integrated within the agri‐food sector, with a particular focus on a company operating in hydroponic agriculture. This study conducts a comprehensive double materiality assessment to evaluate the organization's socio‐environmental ...
Christian Bux, Pasquale Giungato, Serena Sebastiani, Angela Tarabella   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oxidative Fast Pyrolysis Enabling Autothermal Production of Porous Functionalized Biochar and Anhydrosugar/Phenol‐Rich Bio‐Oil From Biomass

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
Oxidative fast pyrolysis of biomass enables autothermal production of value‐added products. ABSTRACT Oxidative fast pyrolysis can potentially overcome the heat‐supply bottleneck of conventional fast pyrolysis by enabling autothermal operation while also tailoring product quality through controlled oxygen addition.
Bin Li, Mengge Song, Sunwen Xia, Kexin Jia, Wojciech Jerzak, Yusuf Makarfi Isa, Dongjing Liu, Xing Xie, Qingfa Zhang, Zhong Ma, Mingfeng Wang, Weiwei Liu, Shihong Zhang, Haiping Yang, Rock Keey Liew, Su Shiung Lam   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino, Claudia Coutinho‐Nóbrega, Nicholas M. Holden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Hybrid Architecture for Credible, Salient, and Legitimate Knowledge Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza, Laura Proença Guimarães, Maria Auxiliadora Drumond   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Dietary Fishmeal Substitution by Full-Fat and Defatted Zophobas morio Larvae Meals on Juvenile Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata): An Integrative Approach

Aquaculture Nutrition
This study evaluated the dietary fishmeal substitution by full-fat (FF) and defatted (DF) Zophobas morio meals regarding growth, feed efficiency, proximate and fatty acid compositions, digestive enzymes activities, histology and midgut microbiota in ...
Adamantia Asimaki, Pier Psofakis, Elli-Zafeiria Gkalogianni, Aikaterini-Maria Katouni, Panagiotis Berillis, Konstantinos A. Kormas, Christos I. Rumbos, Christos G. Athanassiou, Antigoni Vasilaki, Eleni Fountoulaki, Morgane Henry, Eleni Mente, Enric Gisbert, Ioannis T. Karapanagiotidis   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source