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Interactions between people and birds in urban landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A large body of work over the past few decades has revealed the manifestly dramatic impacts of urbanization on species’ distributions and ecologies, many of which result from gross changes in land use and configuration.
Fuller, Richard A.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms, Drivers, and Global Clinical Burden

open access: yesChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fungal antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern for world health caused by an increase in multidrug‐resistant infections, an increase in environmental reservoirs, and the ineffectiveness of current antifungal treatments. Fungal infections continue to be largely excluded from AMR initiatives while causing over 1.6 million deaths ...
Bikash Baral
wiley   +1 more source

Can the Vaquita Be Saved From Extinction?

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2018
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is considered the world’s most endangered marine mammal. It is the smallest member of the porpoise family endemic to the upper part of the Gulf of California.
Gerardo Rodríguez-Quiroz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A framework to guide the sustainability of wildlife tourism operations: examples of marine wildlife tourism in Western Australia

open access: yes, 2010
Growth in the wildlife tourism industry has been significant in recent years with an increasing focus on tourism centered on free-ranging wildlife. In Australia tourism based in the marine environment, including observing and interacting with coastal and
Newsome, D.   +4 more
core  

Substantive or Symbolic? Analyzing the Quality of Impact Reports in Italian B‐Corps Through Legitimacy Theory

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has become increasingly compelling, particularly among hybrid organizations such as B‐Corps, which seek to balance profit and purpose and are required to publish annual Impact Reports. This study assesses the completeness of disclosed information in the 2022 Impact Reports of 74 Italian B‐Corps, drawing on legitimacy ...
Laura Ferraro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary: Wildlife management professionals need to redefine the terms: lethal control, nonlethal control, and live trap

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
I argue that the terms lethal control, nonlethal control, and live trap are no longer sufficiently precise for continued use in the scientific community.
Stephen M. Vantassel
doaj   +1 more source

Protected areas, wildlife conservation and local welfare [PDF]

open access: yes
The establishment and expansion of protected areas in Africa have been motivated by the aspiration of increased wildlife abundance. During the past decades, however, this practise has been subject to a massive debate.
Anne Borge Johannesen
core  

What Do We Know About How Companies Manage Waste? The Effect of Tenure and Diversity of Directors on Disclosures

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the effect of board tenure on firms' waste management disclosure and explore whether this effect is amplified by board gender and cultural diversity. The analysis is based on data from 832 large firms worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

3D printing of fluorine‐free omniphobic surfaces

open access: yesDroplet, EarlyView.
Our work demonstrates that the simple and inexpensive digital light processing three‐dimensional printing can be used to fabricate micropillar arrays with doubly reentrant and triply reentrant features. The printed fluorine‐free surfaces display omniphobicity and resist the wetting of liquids with a wide range of surface tensions.
Tyler R. McCoy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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