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Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-Invasive Assessment of Physiological Stress in Captive Asian Elephants

Animals, 2019
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) populations, both in the wild and in captivity, have been continually declining over the decades. The present study examined the physiological stress response of captive Asian elephants in relation to body condition score
Vinod Kumar, Muthulingam Pradheeps, Adiseshu Kokkiligadda, Rajashekhar Niyogi, Govindhaswamy Umapathy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using N-doped Carbon Dots Prepared Rapidly by Microwave Digestion as Nanoprobes and Nanocatalysts for Fluorescence Determination of Ultratrace Isocarbophos with Label-Free Aptamers

Nanomaterials, 2019
The strongly fluorescent and highly catalytic N-doped carbon dots (CDN) were rapidly prepared by a microwave irradiation procedure and were characterized by electron microscopy (EM), laser scattering, infrared spectroscopy (IR), and by their fluorescence
Xin Li, Xin Jiang, Qingye Liu, Aihui Liang, Zhiliang Jiang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Solution Business Model Patterns in Digital Agriculture: Linking Business Model Components and Sustainable Outcomes From a Startup Business Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital agriculture is expanding rapidly, yet research has only begun to examine how AgTech startups design and adapt their business models, through digital technologies, in response to technological change and rising sustainability expectations.
Mauro Florez, Isabelle Bourdon, Julian Schirmer, René Eber, Valentina Materia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution and Ecological Traits of Cotoneaster integerrimus in South Korea

Biology
Although the rare plant Cotoneaster integerrimus is distributed across Eurasia, ecological information on its isolated populations at the easternmost range limit in Korea has been entirely lacking.
Gyeong-Yeon Lee, Deokki Kim, Seung-Eun Lee, Tae-Bok Ryu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital and Gender Attributes of IC in Sustainability Reporting of Italian Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Italian listed enterprises increasingly rely on intellectual capital (IC) to enhance competitiveness and sustainability performance. As IC, comprising human, structural, and relational capital, is rarely recognised in financial statements due to the lack of standardised frameworks, its disclosure has gained relevance in sustainability ...
Alessandra Buonasera, Simona Catuogno
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Hydrogen Production by Glycerol and Monosaccharides Catalytic Acceptorless Dehydrogenation (AD) in Homogeneous Phase

ChemSusChem, Volume 18, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.
Sustainable hydrogen production can be obtained from hydogen‐rich biomass‐derived organic molecules through Acceptorless Dehydrogenation (AD) reactions. Glycerol and sugars are available in large quantities from industry and can be successfully used as substrates in AD protocols, in the presence of tailored, selective, easily tunable and thermally ...
Sylwia Kostera, Luca Gonsalvi
wiley   +1 more source

Mating Patterns and Postzygotic Barriers in a Hybrid Swarm of Two Closely Related Pigeon Species

Ecology and Evolution
Hybrid zones provide a valuable framework for understanding evolutionary pathways. We investigated mating patterns and reproductive barriers using captive individuals derived from a natural hybrid swarm between hill pigeons (Columba rupestris) and feral ...
Jin‐yong Kim, Seung‐Gu Kang, Jongmin Yoon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source