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Partnership for Coastal Watersheds Steering Committee: Phase 2 Strategy

Partnership for Coastal Watersheds (PCW) Phase 2 projects are aligned with the following three objectives to be pursued in parallel: Coos Estuary Inventory Project, Coos Estuary Monitoring Tools, and Phase 1 PCW Action Plan Implementation, Partnership ...
Partnership for Coastal Watersheds
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Major coastal engineering works : monitoring and management of environmental impacts and risks : a case study from the Central Mediterranean (Malta) [PDF]

, 2012
Coastal tourism and related developments of the past decades have significantly altered parts of the Mediterranean coastline. These include major coastal engineering works and alterations such as marina developments which lead not only to habitat loss ...
Guillaumier, Ruth, Ellul, Michelle, International Conference Marine and Coastal Ecosystems (MarCoastEcos 2012), Borg, Joseph A., Vella, Alfred J., Axiak, Victor   +5 more
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Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard, Andrew Greenman, Stacia Stetkiewicz, Bouwe Dijkstra, Frances Bowen, Richard Field   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drone-based monitoring of intertidal blue mussel beds in the Wadden Sea – comparison of a threshold and two machine learning approaches

Frontiers in Marine Science
In the Wadden Sea, intertidal mussel beds of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) and the Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas) form distinct epibenthic communities and local hotspots of high biomass and biodiversity.
Marc Schnurawa, Jasmin S. Mueller, Hanna Schade, Georg Nehls   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The coastal environmental profile of Segara Anakan-Cilacap, South Java, Indonesia [PDF]

Coastal zone, Coastal zone management, Environmental profile, Segara Anakan, Cilacap, Java, Indonesia,
White, A.T., Sadorra, M.S.M. (eds.), Martosubroto, P.   +2 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization of multi-model ensemble forecasting of typhoon waves

Water Science and Engineering, 2016
Accurately forecasting ocean waves during typhoon events is extremely important in aiding the mitigation and minimization of their potential damage to the coastal infrastructure, and the protection of coastal communities.
Shun-qi Pan, Yang-ming Fan, Jia-ming Chen, Chia-chuen Kao   +3 more
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Impacts of pelagic longline fisheries on sea turtles in the Santos Basin, Brazil

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
Strand monitoring is valuable for identifying human-caused threats to sea turtles but has limitations in fully understanding their overall impact. To address this gap, we conducted a survey to examine sea turtle interactions with longline fisheries ...
Rodrigo Malta Vanucci, Daphne Wrobel Goldberg, Daphne Wrobel Goldberg, Andrea Maranho, Bruno de Barros Giffoni, Isabella Cristina da Rocha Boaventura, Renata Balsamo Dias, Simone Baratto Leonardi, Hugo Gallo Neto, Berenice Maria Gomes Silva, Daniel Wagner Rogerio, Camila Domit, Andre Silva Barreto, Pedro Volkmer Castilho, Cristiane Koleniskovas, Henrique Chupil, José Henrique Becker   +16 more
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
wiley   +1 more source