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A critical review of adsorption isotherm models for aqueous contaminants: Curve characteristics, site energy distribution and common controversies.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
The quantitative description of the equilibrium data by the isotherm models is an indispensable link in adsorption studies. The previous review papers focus on the underlying assumptions, fitting methods, error functions and practical applications of the
Qili Hu, Rui Lan, Liru He, Hengyuan Liu, Xiangjun Pei   +4 more
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Environmental, social and governance performance and financial risk: Moderating role of ESG controversies and board gender diversity

Resources policy, 2021
This study examines the consequence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on oil and gas firms' financial risk. This study uses an international sample of 70 oil and gas firms from 2010 to 2018 and applies two-stage least squares ...
Mohammad Hassan Shakil
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Financial performance shortfall, ESG controversies, and ESG performance: Evidence from firms around the world

Finance Research Letters, 2021
Firms search for new strategic actions when their financial performance falls below their aspired level. This study examines whether financial performance shortfalls motivate firms to undertake improved ESG practices, possibly to maintain future ...
R. DasGupta
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Corporate controversies and company's financial performance: Exploring the moderating role of ESG practices

, 2021
The topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR), along with the related environmental, social and governance (ESG) pillars, is playing a key role in the literature and is attracting increasing interest among managers and policymakers. Nevertheless, we
Niccolò Nirino, Gabriele Santoro, N. Miglietta, Roberto Quaglia   +3 more
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Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies

, 2023
From the Publisher: Examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes.
B. Smart
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The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies

Biological Conservation, 2022
Fake controversies have influenced policy making on health and environmental issues for decades, resulting in major implementation setbacks worldwide.
R. Rajão, A. Nobre, Evandro L.T.P. Cunha, T. Duarte, Camilla Marcolino, B. Soares-Filho, G. Sparovek, R. Rodrigues, C. Valera, Mercedes Bustamante, Carlos Nobre, Letícia Santos de Lima   +11 more
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Adaptive marketing capabilities, dynamic capabilities, and renewal competences: The “outside vs. inside” and “static vs. dynamic” controversies in strategy

, 2020
Three streams of strategic thought, (1) the “adaptive marketing capabilities” works, (2) the “dynamic capabilities” view, and (3) resource-advantage (R-A) theory, are converging on the view that, in today's dynamic, hypercompetitive, global economy ...
S. Hunt, Sreedhar Madhavaram
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A critical review on the mechanisms of persulfate activation by iron-based materials: Clarifying some ambiguity and controversies

, 2020
Iron-based materials, as a series of effective persulfate (PS) activators, have been utilized extensively in PS-based advanced oxidation processes. However, there are some ambiguity cognitions and controversies surrounding the PS activation mechanisms by
Kunjie Hou, Zhoujie Pi, Fubing Yao, Bo Wu, Li He, Xiaoming Li, Dong-bo Wang, Haoran Dong, Qi Yang   +8 more
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