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A mosaic of microclimates: biodiversity outcomes and wildlife habitat potential in large‐scale solar facilities

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid global expansion of photovoltaic (PV) solar facilities, now comprising nearly 80% of the recent and projected growth of renewable electricity, represents one of the most significant land‐use changes of the 21st century. While PV facilities are critical for decarbonising energy systems, their large spatial footprint and infrastructure
Tom Armstrong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction and Evaluation of Water Resource Ecological Footprint in Beijing under the Influence of Changing Environment

open access: yesRenmin Zhujiang, 2023
Ten sub-categories of scenarios are designed based on the system dynamics model for water resource utilization in Beijing to predict and evaluate the water resource ecological footprint in Beijing from 2022 to 2030 under the influence of changing ...
QIN Huanhuan   +2 more
doaj  

RNA‐centric world of retroviruses: unravelling the molecular strategies of genomic RNA packaging

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retroviruses constitute a unique group of RNA viruses that have profoundly influenced both evolutionary trajectories and biomedical research. Their ability to reverse transcribe and integrate into host genomes has shaped genomic architecture across species and contributed to our understanding of oncogenes, gene regulation, and RNA biology ...
Mohammad Abdullah Jehad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Platform Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: A Framework for Industry 5.0 Integration

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive framework is developed for adopting Platform Business Model Innovation (PBMI) to enhance sustainable performance in the Industry 5.0 (I5.0) era. While PBMI plays a growing role in corporate transformation, tensions persist between profit‐driven objectives and broader sustainability imperatives.
Mohamed Ashmel Mohamed Hashim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation of carbon footprint reductions achievable in Cape Town social housing considering rebound effects

open access: yes, 2012
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.Various life cycle studies have shown that solar water heaters (SWHs) have short greenhouse gas emission payback periods.
Dick, Jasper
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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of ecological footprinting to planning policy development: using REAP to evaluate policies for sustainable housing construction

open access: yes, 2008
The complexity of the sustainable-development policy goal is such that policy makers are searching for tools to enable them to evaluate and develop policy directions.
Rydin, Y, Nye, M
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Does Sustainability Auditing Lead to Enhanced Corporate Governance, Environmental Performance, and Financial Outcomes? Empirical Evidence From High‐Impact Industries

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs hierarchical regression modelling on a survey of 550 firms from Nigeria and Ghana to examine the impact of sustainability auditing on corporate governance, environmental performance, and financial outcomes of high‐impact industries.
Mandella Osei‐Assibey Bonsu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of Scotland’s economy on the environment : a response

open access: yes, 2005
This is a short response to the paper by Moffatt et al (2005) which comments on some of our earlier work. Our work uses a specific Input-Output (IO) based technique, labelled a Neo-Classical Linear Attribution System (NCLAS), to measure the impact of ...
McGregor, Peter   +3 more
core  

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