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Assessing dynamic coastal vulnerability to climate hazards: A geospatial approach in Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
This study assesses the dynamic coastal vulnerability of Kakinada district in India by integrating various geophysical and socioeconomic factors within a geospatial framework.
Ganni Satya Venkata Sai Aditya Bharadwaz, Indrajit Pal, Chitrini Mozumder, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad   +3 more
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A scoping review of coastal vulnerability, subsidence and sea level rise in Ghana: Assessments, knowledge gaps and management implications

Quaternary Science Advances, 2023
Coastal areas are home to a myriad of essential services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their topography and evolution.
Selasi Yao Avornyo, Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Pietro Teatini, Philip Minderhoud, Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah, Edem Mahu   +6 more
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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational Sensemaking Theory Perspective of Developing AI‐Driven Strategies for Sustainability Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnérabilités à l’érosion littorale : cartographie de quatre cas antillais et métropolitains

M@ppemonde, 2023
Coastal erosion is a tangible natural phenomenon whose growing concern in the face of climate change led us to work on the problem of mapping certain components of erosion risk, including the study of risk and vulnerability. We chose sites in Guadeloupe (
Aurélie Arnaud, Cécilia Claeys, Marie-Laure Lambert   +2 more
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Sustaining Circular Innovation Under Volatile Market Conditions: The Critical Role of Industry Platforms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While industry platforms are widely recognized as enablers of circular innovation, we still know little about how they evolve to scale and sustain innovation as economic conditions tighten and circular economy funding schemes become more selective.
Eva Qi Wang, Julia A. Fehrer, Jonathan J. Baker, Roderick J. Brodie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Coastal Vulnerability to Storms: A Case Study on the Coast of Thrace, Greece

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
Climate change is expected to increase the risks of coastal hazards (erosion and inundation). To effectively cope with these emerging problems, littoral countries are advised to assess their coastal vulnerabilities.
Iason A. Chalmoukis
doaj   +1 more source

Physical and social vulnerability to coastal erosion: An assessment of Kalutara Coastal Belt, Sri Lanka

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022
Abstract The shoreline of Kalutara, Sri Lanka has become more prone to erosion because of environmental changes caused by natural and anthropogenic factors including climate change. The study aimed to assess and map the physical and social vulnerability to coastal erosion in the shoreline between the Kalu and Bolgoda River mouths in ...
openaire   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coastal Vulnerability and Risk Analysis Along the Littoral of Togo

Coasts
This study presents the first fine-scale Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) assessment for Togo, evaluating coastal vulnerability and risk along the country’s 50 km barrier coastline in the context of accelerating erosion, rising sea level, and growing ...
Dkawlma Tora, Giorgio Fontolan, Saverio Fracaros, Annelore Bezzi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source