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A High-Precision Remote Sensing Identification Method for Land Desertification Based on ENVINet5

Sensors, 2023
Land desertification is one of the serious ecological and environmental problems facing mankind today, which threatens the survival and development of human society. China is one of the countries with the most serious land desertification problems in the
Jingyi Yang, Qinjun Wang, Dingkun Chang, Wentao Xu, Boqi Yuan   +4 more
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
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Stock Market Reactions to Climate Risk Events: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global warming intensifies, climate risks' impact on firm value has become a critical concern for academia and investors. This systematic literature review analyzes 50 event studies in this research field, classifying them by climate risk type.
Mario Schuster, Rainer Lueg
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming desertification patterns in Asia: Evaluating trends, drivers, and climate change impacts from 1990 to 2022

Ecological Indicators
Owing to the combined effects of climate change and human activities, the type of desertification in the arid regions of Asia has undergone profound changes, and the problem of desertification has become increasingly prominent.
Hongchao Qi, Xin Gao, Jiaqiang Lei, Xiaoyu Meng, Zihao Hu   +4 more
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Addressing Medical Deserts in Europe: Lessons From a Comparative Analysis. [PDF]

Health Expect
ABSTRACT Background European countries face a common problem of medical deserts—areas where the population has limited access to healthcare services. Objective This article aims to define medical deserts and provide an in‐depth overview of the factors driving desertification and the solutions applied to reduce its negative consequences across six ...
Domagała A, Dubas-Jakóbczyk K, Gonzalez AIG, Likic R, Michalska K, Kowalska-Bobko I, Sowada C, Flinterman L, Dan S, Batenburg R.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Corporate Sustainability Transition: Methodological Analysis for a Rating Model

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a new rating model for the evaluation of corporate sustainability, addressing the inconsistencies and divergences that characterize current ESG assessment systems. The model is hierarchically structured, comprising 99 indicators organized into 19 modules, and is designed to be adaptable by sector and firm size.
Riccardo Censi, Paola Campana, Fulvio Schettino, Chiara De Pucchio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Large-Scale Monitoring Index of Desertification Based on Kernel Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Feature Space Model

Remote Sensing
As a new vegetation monitoring index, the KNDVI has certain advantages in characterizing the evolutionary process of regional desertification. However, there are few reports on desertification monitoring based on KNDVI and feature space models.
Bing Guo, Rui Zhang, Miao Lu, Mei Xu, Panpan Liu, Longhao Wang   +5 more
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Where Tech Meets the SDGs: A Supply‐Chain Process Map for Sustainability Management

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how advanced technologies support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within supply chain management (SCM) through a structured analysis of 4448 sustainable practices. By integrating perspectives from sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) and contingent dynamic capabilities, the research conceptualizes technology ...
Vincenzo Varriale, Antonello Cammarano, Moacir Godinho‐Filho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of rocky desertification on soil bacterial community in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Frontiers in Microbiology
The makeup of soil microbial communities may serve as a crucial predictor of the alpine grassland ecosystem. Climate change and human disturbance have resulted in intensified ecosystem degradation, such as grassland rocky desertification, which may ...
Shan Li, Shan Li, Huakun Zhou, Wenying Wang, Haze Ade, Haze Ade, Zhonghua Zhang, Li Ma, Zhen Wang, Qiang Zhang, Jingjing Wei, Jingjing Wei, Hongye Su, Hongye Su, Ruimin Qin, Ruimin Qin, Zhengchen Shi, Zhengchen Shi, Xue Hu, Xue Hu, Faliang Wu   +20 more
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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

Land, 2022
The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the intrinsic complexity of the phenomenon and the impossibility of measuring it using a single ...
Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Gabriel del Barrio, María E. Sanjuán, Emilio Guirado, Fernando T. Maestre   +4 more
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