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Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
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Ecological Security

2021
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a security issue. Yet this recognition belies contestation over what security means and whose security is viewed as threatened. Different accounts – here defined as discourses – of security range from those focused on national sovereignty to those emphasising the vulnerability of human populations. This book
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The ecology of water security

2016
The provision of water security for humans generally requires a stable supply of high quality water, which is in contrast to the importance of variability in water quality and quantity for ecosystems. In this chapter we address this apparent conflict and seek congruence between humans and the environment. We discuss the concept of ecosystem health, its
Stewart-Koster, Ben, Bunn, Stuart
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Assessment of the ecological security based on the ecological carrying capacity

2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016
In recent years, under the action of multiple stress factors, such as global change, ecological function decay, extensive production, natural disasters and sudden environmental events are showing a rising trend , the ecological high-risk characteristics which is an inevitable process of industrialization is initially apparent in our country.
Guangzhen Cao, Peng Hou
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Peace and ecological security

Peace Review, 1994
New research shows that environmental factors have been a direct or indirect cause of past conflict and wars and are likely to play an increasing role in future strife. Conversely, wars and military activities are becoming ever more environmentally destructive.
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Canadian Securities Lending Market Ecology

2019
This is the fourth of the Financial Markets Department’s descriptions of Canadian financial industrial organization. The paper discusses the organization of the securities lending market in Canada. We outline key characteristics of securities lending contracts, participants in the securities lending market, the market infrastructures that support ...
Johal, Jesse, Roberts, Joanna, Sim, John
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Climate change and security: towards ecological security?

International Theory, 2018
Climate change is increasingly characterized as a security issue. Yet we see nothing approaching consensus about the nature of the climate change–security relationship. Indeed existing depictions in policy statements and academic debate illustrate radically different conceptions of the nature of the threat posed, to whom and what constitute appropriate
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Ecological security

2023
Thammy Evans, Gary Lewis
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Ecology as critical security method

Critical Studies on Security, 2014
Something in the world makes us think (Deleuze 1994). How could it be any other way? If thought was its own cause, consciousness that was consonant with the world would be impossible.
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Climate, ecology and international security

Survival, 1989
(1989). Climate, ecology and international security. Survival: Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 519-532.
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