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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa, Silvia Bobba, Cynthia E. L. Latunussa, Enrica Leccisi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF BASIC CONDITIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM IN UKRAINE AND POLAND

Фінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики, 2019
The article examines the current state of implementation of the decentralization reform in Ukraine, which highlights the issues of the formation of the chosen European integration vector of development, the fundamental basis of which was the need to ...
O. N. Savastieieva, V. V. Butenko, T. O. Zhuravlova, Daniel Fic   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Import Wheat Tenders and the Effects of the Russian Invasion

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Risk and volatility for many commodities escalated sharply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, creating numerous uncertainties for trading firms and importers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the bidding behavior in Egyptian wheat import tenders in the pre‐ and post‐invasion periods.
William W. Wilson, Sumadhur Shakya, Isaac Dubovoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global patterns and drivers of protected area system decentralization: A cross-national analysis

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
This study presents the first global analysis of decentralization patterns in national protected area systems (NPAS) across 118 countries. Using a hurdle regression model, we examine how country characteristics influence both the adoption and extent of ...
Liza Khmara, Michael Touchton, José Maria Cardoso da Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decentralized bilevel optimization

Optimization Letters
Bilevel optimization has been successfully applied to many important machine learning problems. Algorithms for solving bilevel optimization have been studied under various settings. In this paper, we study the nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel optimization under a decentralized setting.
Xuxing Chen, Minhui Huang, Shiqian Ma
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Actual and Purported Origin in e‐Commerce Wine Pricing: Evidence From Italian and French Names on Labels

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi, Amir Maghssudipour, Gianluca Stefani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost Pass‐Through in Crisis: Evidence From the German Malt‐Beer Supply Chain

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Global agri‐food supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical shocks, climate volatility, and market consolidation, factors that disrupt traditional price relationships and reshape market power dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible than in the brewing sector, where agricultural raw materials meet complex industrial processing and ...
Nikolas Bublik, Lukáš Čechura
wiley   +1 more source

Success, challenges and prospects of decentralization in Africa: a systematic review

Cogent Social Sciences
Decentralization remains a global development approach. African countries have been using decentralization by devolution to realize their development vision. This study assesses the success, challenges, and prospects of decentralization in Africa.
Rogers Rugeiyamu, Adam Msendo
doaj   +1 more source

Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai, Miguel I. Gómez, Harry M. Kaiser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source