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Resolving the biome debate: ecological and palaeo‐data concur that the extensive tree‐limited grassy biomes of central and north‐western Madagascar are largely anthropogenic

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For millennia, human activities have transformed ecosystems globally. Determining which landscapes are predominantly anthropogenic is crucial to conservation and habitat restoration. Madagascar, a critically‐threatened biodiversity hotspot, is a prominent example.
Grant S. Joseph, Sean Hixon, Colleen L. Seymour, Laurie R. Godfrey, Miguel Pedrono, Karen E. Samonds, Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Brooke E. Crowley   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
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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

Unveiling grassland dynamics: trends and drivers of degradation and improvement in the Eurasian Steppe since 2000

GIScience & Remote Sensing
As the most extensive temperate grassland in the world, the Eurasian Steppe provides various ecological services that support the environment and human well-being. However, grassland degradation has become a serious environmental issue.
Ziyu Yan, Bin Sun, Zhihai Gao, Pengyao Qin, Ting Gao, Yifu Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Simulation of the Effects of Grassland Degradation on the Surface Climate in Overgrazing Area of Northwest China

Advances in Meteorology, 2013
The climatic effects of LUCC have been a focus of current researches on global climate change. The objective of this study is to investigate climatic effects of grassland degradation in Northwest China.
Yanfei Li, Zhaohua Li, Zhihui Li, Xiaoli Geng, Xiangzheng Deng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Monitoring Grassland Degradation in Naqu County of Tibet

Shuitu baochi yanjiu, 2007
TM images of study area in 1994 and 2001 are chosen as the basic data,using GIS technique,the situation of grassland utilization and grassland degradation is firstly analyzed.Then,the trend of grassland degradation intensity and grassland types ...
LI Hui-xia1, LIU Shu-zhen2
doaj  

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

Analysis on the Driving Factors of Grassland Desertification in Zoige Wetland

Shuitu baochi yanjiu, 2008
The degradation and desertification of grassland in Zoige wetland lead to a decline in grassland productivity,environmental deterioration and reduction in biodiversity,which threaten the region’s ecological environment and the sustainable development of ...
LI Bin1, DONG Suo-cheng1, JIANG Xiao-bo2, LI Zehong1   +3 more
doaj  

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