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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Modeling of Real-Time Water Levels and Mapping of Storm Tide Pathways: A Collaborative Effort to Respond to the Threats of Coastal Flooding

Coasts
The real-time forecast estimates of total water levels (TWL) associated with coastal storms by the Boston Office of the National Weather Service (NWS), and the analysis, identification, and field mapping of storm tide pathways (STP) by the Center for ...
Joseph Dellicarpini, Mark Borrelli, Stephen T. Mague, Stephen McKenna   +3 more
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A GIS-based method for revealing the transversal continuum of natural landscapes in the coastal zone

MethodsX, 2018
The method presented in this article is helpful for analyzing the landscape properties and unfolding the transversal continuity of natural landscapes in the coastal zone. The novel conceptual approach to analyze the landscape structure in the transversal
Artan Hysa, Fatma Aycim Turer Baskaya
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Two Alternative Procedures for Measuring Airflow Resistance of Sound Absorbing Materials

Archives of Acoustics, 2013
It is well known that sound absorption and sound transmission properties of open porous materials are highly dependent on their airflow resistance values.
Romina del REY, Jesus ALBA, Jorge P. ARENAS, Jaime RAMIS   +3 more
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Socio-Economic Indicators of Coastal Resource Management Participation: The Bataan Case

Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2018
Recognizing the human dimension on participation to environmental conservation initiatives, this study determined the socio-economic characteristics of stakeholders in Bataan Coastal Resource Management (CRM) and how these variables influence their ...
Adrian D. Perdio
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Coastal management in Brazil from the perspective of the public policy cycle: Analysis of the “multiscale management” proposed in the National Coastal Management Plan

Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 2023
This article explores the institutionalization of multiscale management in the Brazilian coastal zone, following the National Coastal Management Plan. It employs Secchi’s COQ3 framework to analyze and shed light on this subject.
Giuliana Dos Santos Pinheiro, Lise Tupiassu, Ana Elizabeth Neirão Reymão   +2 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Turning the wheel away from biophysical indicators in coastal zone management: Towards a stakeholder-based systemic framework

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Coastal zone management is a pressing matter, especially in developing countries, which are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Human systems are underrepresented in the vast array of indicators aimed at assisting coastal zone management ...
David J. Smith, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos   +1 more
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Rapid Assessment Survey of Marine Species at New England Floating Docks and Rocky Shores [PDF]

, 2010
This report is a publication of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Management (CZM) pursuant to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NA12NOS4190086.
Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
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