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Wildfires in the Cape floristic region : exploring vegetation and weather as drivers of fire frequency

open access: yes, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-76).This study assessed the spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires in the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). It focused on the factors that influence fire frequency; namely vegetation age, ignition sources and
Southey, Diane
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Back to Nature or Technology to the Rescue? Climate Managers' Preferences for Investment in Carbon Dioxide Removal

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms are increasingly looking into carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a set of options to take past emissions of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Often two basic categories of CDR are distinguished: nature‐based solutions, such as planting trees or restoring wetlands, and technology‐based solutions, such as various forms of carbon capture ...
Sabrina Mili   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

70 Years of observational weather data show increasing fire danger for boreal Europe and reveal bias of ERA5 reanalysed data

open access: yesScientific Reports
Retrospective analyses of fire danger typically use reanalysed data, but its relation to observed fire danger is not well researched. Here we use daily weather observations to calculate fire danger for nine weather stations in Sweden, spanning 1100 km N ...
Johan Sjöström   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bird communities following high-severity fire: Response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA

open access: yes, 2009
Fire is a widespread natural disturbance agent in most conifer-dominated forests. In light of climate change and the effects of fire exclusion, single and repeated high-severity (stand-replacement) fires have become prominent land management issues.
Kauffman, J.B.   +4 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grasstree stem analysis reveals insufficient data for inference of fire history

open access: yes, 2012
Grinding back dead leaf bases on the stems of arborescent grasstrees (Xant7wrrlwea spp.) reveals a pattern of horizontal bands that has been interpreted as a record of the fire history experienced by the plant.
Enright, N.J.   +6 more
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Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
wiley   +1 more source

How Corporations Operationalize Climate‐Related Risks and Opportunities: Evidence From Qualitative Expert Interviews

open access: yesBusiness 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Integrated Fire Management: Strengthening Forest Fire Legislation and Policies in the Andean Community of Nations

open access: yesFire
This study analyzes forest fire legislation and policies in the Andean Community of Nations (ACN)—Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia—focusing on prevention and control.
Liliana Correa-Quezada   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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