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Revista Ambiente & Água, 2014 A utilização de água residuária tratada para irrigação pode se tornar uma alternativa para regiões que enfrentam escassez de água. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos do reuso de efluente doméstico na cultura do rabanete (Raphanus ...
Iasmine Louise de Almeida Dantas +5 more
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Land Cover Mapping using Digital Earth Australia
Data, 2019 This study establishes the use of the Earth Observation Data for Ecosystem Monitoring (EODESM) to generate land cover and change classifications based on the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS ...
Richard Lucas +10 more
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Overcoming Data Limitations in Nonparametric Benchmarking: Applying PCA-DEA to Natural Gas Transmission [PDF]
This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries.
Anne Neumann +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of managerial ability in driving environmental performance and overall environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in the context of the European Union sustainability reporting regulations. Using a sample of 7242 firm‐year observations over the period 2015–2023, our results indicate a structural change in ...
Mihaela Ionașcu +2 more
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Irrigation Frequency Strategies and Deep Fertilization in Potato Crop
AgronomyThe joint adoption of agronomic practices has often been employed to maximize the efficiency of production inputs, especially water and nutrients. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a highly demanding crop in both water and nutrients.
Gustavo Henrique da Silva +4 more
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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2016 Study region: The study was developed for the Pomba river basin, which is located in southeast region of Brazil in the continent of South America. Study focus: Hydrological simulation may be used to estimate the water availability, flood streamflows and ...
Donizete dos R. Pereira +3 more
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A Universal and Actionable Measure of Corporate Sustainability for Strategic Decision Making
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Managers require a universal, comparable, and decision‐useful measure of corporate sustainability that can reliably inform business strategy, yet such a tool remains absent in the literature and current practice. This paper introduces a comprehensive and operational metric—grounded in Goertz's Basic Framework for developing social science ...
Mariapia Pazienza +2 more
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Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco +3 more
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Microfinance institutions and efficiency
, 2004 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are special financial institutions. They have both a social nature and a for-profit nature. Their performance has been traditionally measured by means of financial ratios.
Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña +2 more
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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 +2 more
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