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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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In-situ groundwater level monitoring reveals worldwide status, trends and impacts
Environmental Research LettersGroundwater, as the largest storage of liquid freshwater on Earth and a major component of the water cycle, is critical for supporting surface water flow, ecosystems as well as water and food security.
Feifei Cao +4 more
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Business 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
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Barriers to the Adoption of Circular Economy Business Models in the Indian Textile Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indian textile industry has significant negative impacts on the environment. This industry needs to adopt a circular economy approach to become more sustainable; however, progress on this has been limited. In this study, we report on the barriers to adoption of Circular Economy Business Models (CEBMs) in the Indian textile industry.
Himanshu Chandra +2 more
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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 +3 more
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, 2019 Monitoring the groundwater levels is required to predict groundwater drought and mitigate its impacts, so as to ensure sustainable water supplies and protection of the aquatic ecosystems. The quantitative status of the groundwater resource is assessed against specific groundwater thresholds levels, which constitute trigger levels that initiate and/or ...
Allier, Delphine +4 more
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Assessment of Fluoride Levels in Groundwater
IPS Journal of Public HealthWater is essential for human survival, yet over 1.1 billion people, primarily in low and middle-income countries, lack access to safe drinking water. Fluoride, a natural element in groundwater, is beneficial at low concentrations but toxic at higher levels, causing conditions like dental and skeletal fluorosis.
N. C. Mmonwuba, M. A. Ogidan
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RVM based on PSO for Groundwater Level Forecasting
Journal of Computers, 2012 Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) is a novel kernel method based on Sparse Bayesian, which has many advantages such as its kernel functions without the restriction of Mercer’s conditions, the relevance vectors automatically determined. In this paper, a new RVM model optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed, and it is applied to ...
Weiguo Zhao, Yanfeng Gao, Chunliu Li
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability has prompted companies to engage with stakeholders in addressing environmental and social challenges. This paper investigates how companies and stakeholders co‐create value through a collaborative and iterative process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of sustainable strategies.
Meryem Altaf +3 more
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Revealing the causes of groundwater level dynamics in seasonally frozen soil zones using interpretable deep learning models [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesAccurately characterizing groundwater level dynamics in seasonal frozen soil regions is of great significance for water resource management and ecosystem protection.
H. Li +23 more
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