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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water Resource Carrying Capacity Evaluation Method in Typical Grassland

Shuitu baochi yanjiu, 2014
The research of water resource carrying capacity is not only the key factor to support the health of ecology in typical grassland area,but also the necessary guarantee for the sustainable development of society and economy in pastoral area.In this paper ...
LONG Yin-hui, GUO Zhong-xiao, LIAO Zi-long, XU Xiao-min, LIU Hua-lin, SONG Yi-fan   +5 more
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Grassland degradation reduces both quantity and nutritional carrying capacity in alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau constitute a critical pastoral production base in China. Nevertheless, these grasslands have experienced some degree of degradation, largely associated with the combined effects of climate change and ...
Xinru Che, Suyu Huang, Dongyu Li, Keying Liang, Qiuyun Xu, Xiuyu Chen, Chengyang Li   +6 more
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From Ecological Culture to Green Innovation: The Role of Ethnic Minority Corporate Leaders in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do ecological values embedded in ethnic cultures influence the environmental strategies of corporate leaders and their firms' green innovation? We examine this question in China's multiethnic context, where distinct ecological traditions across ethnic groups create sharp cultural contrasts that can be traced into leadership composition and ...
Yuan Du, Yingxin Di, Wei Cui
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

Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Agriculture or Farmers? Problem Representations of Biodiversity and Farm Loss in Swedens Strategy for the Common Agricultural Policy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European Union (EU) strategies for food supply address challenges of increasing, or at least maintaining, today's level of agricultural food production. At the same time, European farmland biodiversity continues to deteriorate despite considerable investments in measures to promote environmentally friendly farming practices.
Johanna Tangnäs, Tuija Hilding‐Rydevik   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grass-livestock balance under the joint influences of climate change, human activities and ecological protection on Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Indicators
Grasslands are important terrestrial ecosystems and key sources of primary productivity for livestock on Earth. It is very important to clarify the trend of the balance between grassland and livestock for sustainable development.
Lingyan Yan, Lingqiao Kong, Lijing Wang, Li Zhang, Jinming Hu, Zhiyun Ouyang   +5 more
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Translating Across Boundaries: The Process of Integrating Forestry Into the German National Water Strategy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory processes are increasingly recognized as essential components of modern environmental governance. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the design and implementation of such processes, less is known about the critical phase between participatory processes and final policy outputs.
Sabeth Häublein
wiley   +1 more source

Large-scale assessment of pastoral value and carrying capacity of Alpine grasslands using remote sensing and machine learning

Ecological Informatics
European mountain grasslands are undergoing rapid changes in climate and land use, with direct consequences for forage provision and the management of extensive livestock systems.
Giacomo Marengo, Marco Pittarello, Michele Lonati, Giampiero Lombardi, Simone Ravetto Enri   +4 more
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