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Recent high-severity wildfires in a dry-conifer landscape are unprecedented over five centuries and foretell future forest loss. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Wion AP, Stevens JT, Coop JD, Farris CA, Parks SA, Allen CD, Margolis EQ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Issue Construals and Corporate Water Stewardship

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the face of mounting environmental and social pressures, the importance of responsible corporate water stewardship (CWS) should be evident, yet not all businesses are taking water management issues seriously. The aim of this study is to explore why differences in CWS persist, especially within industries facing similar resource challenges ...
Daina Mazutis, Mohamed Chelli, Sharon OSullivan, Katherine Hanly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar, Christopher Wickert, Svetlana Khapova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-fidelity CNN-based surrogate modeling for wildfire spread forecasting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nematshahi S, Fan R, Khodaei A, Belval E, Arabnya A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

Reassessing boreal wildfire drivers enables high-resolution mapping of emissions for climate adaptation. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Eckdahl JA, Nieradzik L, Rütting L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Future Projections of Burned Area in Europe Highlight the Importance of Human Action. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Billing M, Forrest M, Bowring SPK, Oberhagemann L, Neidermeier AN, Hetzer J, von Bloh W, Müller C, Rolinski S, Hickler T, Thonicke K.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim, Khaled Hussainey, Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Previous prescribed burns saved thousands of ancient sequoias during historically unprecedented wildfires. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Dixon DJ, Das AJ, Dong X, Latimer AM, Soderberg DN, Stephenson NL, Caprio AC, Jin Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source