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Bivariate analysis of short-duration extreme rainfalls. Application to the study of the debris floods (alluviums) in the Funchal region (Madeira Island)

Territorium: Revista Portuguesa de riscos, prevenção e segurança
Intense rainfalls and debris floods are familiar occurrences in Madeira Island (Portugal); but, understanding how intense rainfall relates to this type of floods is limited.
Lucas Gomes, Maria Manuela Portela, Luis Espinosa   +2 more
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Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Focus: How Entrepreneurs Tackling the Grand Challenge of Waste Management Navigate Institutional and Market Adversity in Ghana

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Augustine Awuah Peprah, Bede Akorige Atarah   +3 more
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Modeling non-stationarity in extreme rainfall data and implications for climate adaptation: A case study from southern highlands region of Tanzania

Scientific African
The Southern Highlands region of Tanzania has witnessed an increased frequency of severe flash floods. This study examines rainfall data of four stations (Iringa, Mbeya, Rukwa, and Ruvuma) spanning 30 years (1991–2020) to investigate drivers of extreme ...
Erick A. Kyojo, Silas Mirau, Sarah E. Osima, Verdiana G. Masanja   +3 more
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How Corporations Operationalize Climate‐Related Risks and Opportunities: Evidence From Qualitative Expert Interviews

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate‐related risks and opportunities have become a central concern for companies as climate change increasingly affects business models, value chains, and long‐term competitiveness. However, limited evidence exists about how corporations confront the attendant practical and strategic challenges of climate‐related risk and opportunity ...
Sebastian Rhein, Laura Engel, Thomas Dreier, Helene Ida Kleiber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do High Temperatures Affect Firm Demography? Evidence From Italy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of high temperatures and heat stress on Italian firm demography during 2009–2022. Combining provincial‐firm‐level data with a high‐resolution multidecadal meteorological dataset, we investigate whether high temperatures—absolute and anomalous—affect firm entry and exit rates.
Concetta Carnevale, Danilo Drago, Francesco Trivieri, Francesco De Simone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable and Resilient Supply Networks: Digitalisation, Regulation and Climate Vulnerability in a Global Context

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing frequency of global crises has intensified concerns regarding climate vulnerability and the resilience of global production systems. This study examines the heterogeneous effects of supply chain development and supply chain digitalisation on climate vulnerability across countries, while accounting for institutional and investment ...
Ziwei Li, Zhi Zhan, Kingsley Imandojemu, Romanus Osabohien, Damilola Felix Eluyela   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Characterization of GNSS Tropospheric Parameters During the Extreme Rainfall on ‘9.7’ in Hong Kong

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
On 7 September 2023, Hong Kong experienced a rare extreme rainfall due to the low-pressure trough associated with the remnants of Typhoon “Haikui,” which caused significant casualties and economic losses.
Ming Shangguan, Xiaomei Ren, Shuguang Wu, Huaiqi Ye, Wenkui Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Weather Action: A Study on the Industry Peer Effects of Corporate Climate Risk Information Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global climate change has elevated the strategic importance of corporate climate risk disclosure, yet the role of industry peer effects in shaping such disclosure remains underexplored. Grounded in social learning theory, this study proposes an “observation–imitation–reinforcement” framework and empirically tests it using panel data on Chinese
Huer Shuang, Shenghua Lou, Renjie Luo, Jiajia Luo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Heat Is On: Climate Change–Related Challenges and SMEs' R&D Activities

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Investing in R&D is a key way for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop capabilities that are required to respond to climate change–related challenges. However, the extent to which such challenges affect SMEs' R&D activities remains a critical gap in the literature.
Gráinne Gibson, Helena Lenihan, Mauricio Perez‐Alaniz, Christian Rammer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source