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Economies of Scope in Endangered-Species Protection: Evidence from Interest-Group Behavior [PDF]
This paper looks for positive spillovers from the legal protection of one species to the welfare of others, and for evidence of economies of scope in the costs associated with protecting species under the Endangered Species Act.
Ando, Amy
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, 2016 The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance.
Doub, J. Peyton
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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 +2 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Here, we report the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of the moss Myurella julacea (Schwägr.) Schimp. We found that the total length of the M. julacea complete cp genome was 124,457 base pairs (bp) long, comprising 82 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes ...
Yeong-Deok Han +2 more
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ESA basics: 40 years of conserving endangered species
, 2013 When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, it recognized that our rich natural heritage is of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientific value to our Nation and its people.” It further expressed concern that many
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Rare or threatened vascular plant species of Wollemi National Park, central eastern New South Wales [PDF]
, 2013 Wollemi National Park (c. 32o 20’– 33o 30’S, 150o– 151oE), approximately 100 km north-west of Sydney, conserves over 500 000 ha of the Triassic sandstone environments of the Central Coast and Tablelands of New South Wales, and occupies approximately 25 ...
Bell, Stephen A. J.
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Geolocators reveal migration and pre-breeding behaviour of the critically endangered Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus [PDF]
, 2012 Using combined miniature archival light and salt-water immersion loggers, we characterise the year-round individual at-sea movements of Europe’s only critically endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, for the first time ...
Jones, A. +31 more
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From ESG to Biodiversity: Decoupling and Its Asymmetries as a Source of Biodiversity Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While environmental, social and governance (ESG) research has extensively documented the risks stemming from disclosure and performance gaps, the growing demand for biodiversity reporting raises concerns that analogous inconsistencies may amplify corporations' exposure to biodiversity risk.
Etienne Develay, Nader S. Virk
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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 +4 more
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Consultations with federal agencies: Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act
, 2013 The purposes of the Endangered Species Act are to provide a means for conserving the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend and a program for the conservation of such species. The ESA directs all Federal agencies to participate in
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