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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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Individual Endowment, Risk Preference and Peasants’ Selection of Green Pesticides

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2018
The selection of green pesticides is the result of peasants’ comprehensive tradeoff between individual characteristics and external environment. Based on 286 rice farmers in China and through the use of Logit model, this paper analyzed the influencing ...
Wu Jinfang
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Corporate Management of Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings and Rating Divergence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings increasingly influence investment and corporate decision‐making, companies face growing pressure to manage their ESG performance strategically. This study examines how firms navigate the fragmented ESG rating landscape marked by significant agency divergence. Based on a multiple‐case study
Selina Hauch
wiley   +1 more source

Research on Integration conception of Urban and Rural Endowment Insurance System [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Public Management (ICPM 2016), 2016
China’s pension system mainly includes Civil Servant Pension System, the Endowment Insurance of Urban Workers and Endowment Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents, which is a fragmented state. This article hopes to establish a step-by-step integration of the endowment insurance system, in which the pension benefits of different regions and different ...
Yuan Yuan, Yuanyuan Wu
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Too Hot to Profit? Climatic Stress and Farm‐Level Performance in Italian Viticulture

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the economic impact of long‐run climatic conditions on Italian wine farms by applying a Ricardian framework to 1431 firms from the 2022 RICA‐FADN survey. We combine farm‐level revenues with viticulture‐specific agroclimatic indicators to assess how climate stress shapes profitability across 77 Italian NUTS3 provinces ...
Diego Grazia, Federico Zilia, Stefano Corsi, Chiara Mazzocchi, Jean‐Marie Cardebat   +4 more
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Research on Issues and Countermeasures of Urban-rural Endowment Insurance Integration [PDF]

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2015
To narrow urban and rural development gaps in recent years, realization of urban-rural endowment insurance integration is an important content of the reform of social security system in China. In recent years, China has continuously completed endowment insurance system, and expanded coverage groups of social insurance.
Xiaolan Zhang, Jie Zhou
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Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina, Madeleine Rachel Widia, Olivia Felice Janice Boedijanto, Sharon Feliza Ann P. Macagba, Johanne Rei R. Castro, Rainbow Yi Hung Lam   +5 more
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Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
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PERBANDINGAN HASIL PERHITUNGAN PREMI ASURANSI JIWA ENDOWMENT SUKU BUNGA VASICEK DENGAN DAN TANPA SIMULASI MONTE CARLO

E-Jurnal Matematika, 2017
Vasicek is one of the stochastic interest rate model that can capture interest rates movement. The aim of this research was to get the comparison of the level premium for an endowment life insurance under stochastic interest rate without and by using ...
DESI KURNIA SARI, I NYOMAN WIDANA, KARTIKA SARI   +2 more
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Can Carbon Strategy Enhance Corporate Productivity? Evidence From Carbon Risk and Opportunity Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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