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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, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leader–Member Exchange, Compliance and Sustainability Performance in Carbon‐Market Governance: A Global South Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Leader–Member Exchange quality shapes engagement, compliance, and sustainability performance within Uganda's emerging carbon‐trading market, adopting LMX theory to sustainability governance in a Global South context. A cross‐sectional survey of 206 carbon‐market participants in Uganda measured LMX quality, environmental
Liz Nantunda, Wilson Muyinda Mande, Helen Kopnina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does conservation status influence the temporal development of agriculturally used permanent grassland in Germany?

, 2018
The preservation of grassland is an intensely disputed topic in th EU, in general, and in Germany in particular. Preservation of grassland is topical mainly for two reasons: the protection of abiotic resources (e.g.
Röder, Norbert, Ackermann, Andrea, Rudolph, Sebastian   +2 more
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Assessing the Influences of Grassland Degradation on Soil Quality Through Different Minimum Data Sets in Southwest China

Establishing a suitable and useful soil quality (SQ) assessment tool is imperative for the accurate evaluation of the effect of environmental changes on SQ.
Shun Zou, Dongpeng Lv, Tu Feng, Xiaolong Bai, Wangjun Li, Bin He   +5 more
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Ecolabels as Instruments for Biodiversity Governance in Agri‐Food Systems: A Comparative Assessment of EU Certification Schemes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services, yet it continues to decline due to intensive agriculture, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Although ecolabels are increasingly used to communicate sustainability attributes and influence consumer choices, their role in addressing biodiversity ...
Marzieh Aminravan, Parthena Chatzinikolaou, Sina Ahmadikaliji, Luca Camanzi, Luca Mulazzani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traits of the Leaf Economics Spectrum Do Not Always Relate to Species Biomass Proportions in Grassland Communities of Varying Diversity

Ecology and Evolution
Traits of the “leaf economics spectrum” (LES) relate to a functional trade‐off between slow and fast return on carbon investment, but it is not clear whether the globally observed trait‐relationships also hold in local plant communities.
Dörte Bachmann, Nina Buchmann, Anne Ebeling, Christiane Roscher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of summer transhumance practice in the Carpathians, Apuseni Mountains, Romania, on cattle milk production and quality

Frontiers in Animal Science
In the Apuseni Mountains, a particular type of short-distance transhumance has been practiced for hundreds of years, in which people move a proportion of their cattle to grassland at higher altitudes, allowing them to save the hay from the grassland ...
Mirela Ranta, Ioana Crișan, Anca Pleșa, Andrada Ihuț   +3 more
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Levy oration 2017: Reflections on a unique landscape

, 2018
Thanks so much to the New Zealand Grassland Association. I am sincerely humbled to have the opportunity to say a few words on my thinking looking back at an almost continuous time as a grassland ...
Goldson, Stephen
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Advancing Circular Economy Measurement in Agri‐Food: An Updated Dashboard of Indicators

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasing relevance of the circular economy in the agri‐food sector highlights the need for systematic tools to assess environmental, economic and social performance. Despite the proliferation of studies, literature still presents fragmentation and lacks comprehensive sets of indicators across certain thematic areas.
Stefano Poponi, Francesco Pacchera, Alessandro Ruggieri, Gabriella Arcese   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Content of Grassland in West Songnen Plain Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Sentinel-1/2 Data

Agriculture
Based on multi-source data, including synthetic aperture radar (Sentinel-1, S1) and optical satellite images (Sentinel-2, S2), topographic data, and climate data, this study explored the performance and feasibility of different variable combinations in ...
Haoming Li, Jingyao Xia, Yadi Yang, Yansu Bo, Xiaoyan Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source