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Public Perceptions of Wildlife-Associated Disease: Risk Communication Matters

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Wildlife professionals working at the interface where conflicts arise between people and wild animals have an exceptional responsibility in the long-term interest of sustaining society’s support for wildlife and its conservation by resolving human ...
Daniel J. Decker, William F. Siemer, Darrick T. N. Evenson, Richard C. Stedman, Katherine A. McComas, Margaret A. Wild, Kevin T. Castle, Kirsten M. Leong   +7 more
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing human–elephant conflicts in Taita Taveta County, Kenya: Integrating species distribution modeling into targeted conservation strategies

Global Ecology and Conservation
Increasing competition for space and resources at the agriculture-conservation interface poses critical challenges to wildlife conservation, often intensifying human–wildlife conflicts throughout the globe, including Kenya.
Tino Johansson, Martha Munyao, Petri K.E. Pellikka, Sakari Äärilä, Patrick Omondi, Mika Siljander   +5 more
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From Ecosystem Threats to Balance Sheets: Biodiversity Risks Exposure and Corporate Cash Policies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms strategically respond to biodiversity risk by examining their cash holding decisions. Using firm‐level data from China, we find that firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure significantly increases corporate cash holdings.
Jing Hao, Ran Sun, Brian Lucey, Feng He, Andrew Urquhart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing wolf–human conflicts in Wisconsin, USA

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2015
Management of human–wildlife conflict is a critical component of wildlife conservation globally, especially for large carnivores. Understanding general patterns of conflict can guide management decisions, such as whether or not to consider lethal or ...
Erik R. Olson, Timothy R. Van Deelen, Adrian P. Wydeven, Stephen J. Ventura, David M. Macfarland   +4 more
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Do Eco‐Emotions and Climate Change Perceptions Influence Environmentally Conscious Decisions? Implications for Business Strategies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang, Muhammad Danish Habib, Anushree Tandon, Attila Kurucz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking Antlers? An Evaluation of an Environmental Mediation Process in Scotland Based on Direct Observation

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental conflicts are increasing as is interest in ways they can be managed. However, evaluations of Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) processes based on direct observation remain scarce, despite ECR existing for over half a century.
Callum Leavey‐Wilson, Janet Fisher, Sam Staddon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation Can Better Integrate Environmental Justice if We Consider People’s Needs

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Beck M. Swab
wiley   +1 more source