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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought causes limited productivity of maize: drought tolerant corn hybrid

open access: yes, 2012
Due to drought stress, there is a significant amount of loss in corn yield\ud caused by weather changes such as rising temperatures and the decrease of rainfall.
Sidhu, Gaurav
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Renewable Energy, Climate Risk, and the Cost of External Assurance: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy are central to climate‐transition strategies, but their effects on external assurance have not been well understood. This study examines whether, how and where corporate renewable energy consumption affects the cost of external assurance, proxied by statutory audit fees.
Rashid Zaman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Propagation Characteristics of Soil Moisture Drought to Hydrological Drought by Spatial Zoning and Dynamic Bayesian Network

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Understanding how soil moisture drought transitions into hydrological drought is essential for effective monitoring of water resources and assessing drought risk.
Jie Wang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecolabels as Instruments for Biodiversity Governance in Agri‐Food Systems: A Comparative Assessment of EU Certification Schemes

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services, yet it continues to decline due to intensive agriculture, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Although ecolabels are increasingly used to communicate sustainability attributes and influence consumer choices, their role in addressing biodiversity ...
Marzieh Aminravan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earnings call transcripts, we capture firm‐specific regulatory, physical and ...
Hoa Phan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regionalizing Meteorological-to-Agricultural Drought Propagation for Agricultural Risk Management Using Event Metrics and Explainable Machine Learning

open access: yesAgriculture
Developing context-specific drought regionalization is crucial for targeted risk management, as drought evolves as a cascading hazard driven by complex land–atmosphere interactions rather than isolated climatic anomalies.
Haofang Yan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of local drought adaptation measures on groundwater levels and drought propagation

open access: yes
This thesis was submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Master's degree in Hydrology at the Department of Climate Risk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Van Noord, Marjolein   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Mapping and Interrelationships of the Drivers of Sustainable Agricultural Practice Adoption Among Smallholder Rice Farmers: A Multi‐Criteria Decision‐Making Analysis for Climate Resilience

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice production sustains food security and rural livelihoods across many low‐income countries but remains highly vulnerable to climate‐related hazards, including floods, droughts, salinity intrusion and heat stress, which reduce yields and threaten the long‐term sustainability of rice production.
Apurbo Sarkar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arizona drought preparedness plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
: The Operational Drought Plan, contained herein, is the key component for responding to the current and future drought conditions in Arizona. The Operational Drought Plan recognizes that drought events are natural disasters that touch all sectors of ...

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