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Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina, Madeleine Rachel Widia, Olivia Felice Janice Boedijanto, Sharon Feliza Ann P. Macagba, Johanne Rei R. Castro, Rainbow Yi Hung Lam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Demographic and Behavioral Mechanisms that Guide Responses of Neotropical Migratory Birds to Urbanization: a Simulation Approach

Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2008
Although studies often report that densities of many forest birds are negatively related to urbanization, the mechanisms guiding this pattern are poorly understood. Our objective was to use a population simulation to examine the relative influence of six
Daniel P. Shustack, Amanda D. Rodewald
doaj   +1 more source

Vernal Pool Conservation: Enhancing Existing Regulation Through the Creation of the Maine Vernal Pool Special Area Management Plan [PDF]

, 2019
Conservation of natural resources is challenging given the competing economic and ecological goals humans have for landscapes. Vernal pools in the northeastern US are seasonal, small wetlands that provide critical breeding habitat for amphibians and ...
Calhoun, Aram J. K., Hertz, Elizabeth, Levesque, Vanessa R.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel, Stephanie Ligan, Alice Bischof, Edi Emilov Ivanov, Laura Martinez‐Izquierdo, Sara Noémie Plassnig, Marisa Pettit   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Planeación insurgente en Medellín - Colombia: cómo habitar y organizarse comunitariamente en El Faro

Revista Eídos, 2018
Los asentamientos informales autoconstruidos, comunes en América Latina desde la segunda mitad del Siglo XX, son reconocidos como el paradigma del hábitat popular en nuestra región. El barrio El Faro es un reflejo de lo anterior.
José Alejandro Sanín Eastman
doaj   +1 more source

Symposium Review: Wild Animal Welfare is in Our Backyards

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Bonnie Fairbanks Flint, David R. Daversa, M. Camille Hopkins, Jessica X. Wright‐Lichter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Transformation and Informal Innovation in Africa: Reframing STI Policy for Inclusive Circular Economy Transitions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Isaiah Nketiah, Simplice A. Asongu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat diversification associated with urban development has a little effect on genetic structure in the annual native plant Commelina communis in an East Asian megacity

Ecology and Evolution
Urban development greatly alters the natural and semi‐natural habitats of native plants. Urbanisation results in a range of diverse habitats including remnant agricultural lands, urban parks, and roadside habitats.
Nakata Taichi, Naoyuki Nakahama, Nobuko Ohmido, Atushi Ushimaru   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Call for strengthening rural healthcare services: Blending rural practice, medical care and surgical specialties

Journal of Surgical Specialties and Rural Practice, 2020
Rural habitat poses several disadvantages to the rural population. Challenges are immense when it comes to organizing the provision of general medical and healthcare services to rural communities.
Raman Kumar
doaj   +1 more source

SEASONAL EFFECTS OF FARMER‐MANAGED LIVESTOCK GRAZING EXCLUSIONS ON BIRD COMMUNITIES IN BURKINA FASO

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Gabriel Marcacci
wiley   +1 more source