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Analysis of high-resolution satellite images for iceberg detection in the Barents Seas

, 2007
Iceberg observations in the Northern and Eastern Barents Sea have been studied by use of high-resolution satellite images, supported by in situ observations from field expeditions by Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in 2005 and 2006.
Sandven, Stein, Kloster, Kjell, Babiker, Mohamed   +2 more
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A Universal and Actionable Measure of Corporate Sustainability for Strategic Decision Making

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managers require a universal, comparable, and decision‐useful measure of corporate sustainability that can reliably inform business strategy, yet such a tool remains absent in the literature and current practice. This paper introduces a comprehensive and operational metric—grounded in Goertz's Basic Framework for developing social science ...
Mariapia Pazienza, Martin de Jong, Dirk Schoenmaker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking iceberg detection and ice-sheet discharge: A case study in Upernavik Isfjord, Northwest Greenland

Journal of Glaciology
The export of fresh water (solid and liquid) from glaciers and ice sheets plays an important role in the global climate system. Icebergs influence ocean salinity and circulation patterns and pose a growing hazard to Arctic navigation as sea ice cover ...
Henriette Skourup, Jørgen Buus-Hinkler, Rasmus Fenger-Nielsen, George-Valentin Soare, Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen, Till Andreas Soya Rasmussen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Violência contra crianças na cidade de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil: a prevalência dos maus-tratos calculada com base em informações do setor educacional Violence against children in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, Brazil: child abuse prevalence estimated from school system data

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2009
Os números oficiais dos maus-tratos infantis não correspondem à realidade, pois muitos casos não são notificados. No presente estudo, buscou-se estimar a prevalência em crianças de 0 a 10 anos matriculadas em estabelecimentos educacionais da rede pública
Juliana Martins Faleiros, Alessandra da Silva Araújo Matias, Marina Rezende Bazon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Corporate Sustainability Rating Methodology on Disclosure Behavior

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has illuminated long‐standing concerns over the ability for sustainability rating schemes to accurately convey sustainability‐related performance of firms. This study theorizes and empirically examines how a detailed and transparent rating methodology influences what information
Patrick J. Callery
wiley   +1 more source

From Double Materiality to Performance: Conceptualizing Reporting Under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As social and environmental challenges intensify, the EU has introduced the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), mandating sustainability reporting through the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The standards mandate a double materiality assessment but leave uncertainty about the structure and contents of the ...
Jørgen Kjøsen Lindgren, Nora Johanne Klungseth, Bjørn Sørskot Andersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently

, 1998
Many applications compute aggregate functions over an attribute (or set of attributes) to find aggregate values above some specified threshold. We call such queries iceberg queries, because the number of abovethreshold results is often very small (the ...
Min Fang, Hector Garcia-molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Rajeev Motwani, Narayanan Shivakumar   +4 more
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Stock Market Reactions to Climate Risk Events: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global warming intensifies, climate risks' impact on firm value has become a critical concern for academia and investors. This systematic literature review analyzes 50 event studies in this research field, classifying them by climate risk type.
Mario Schuster, Rainer Lueg
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Cost of Equity Capital: A Meta‐Analytical Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and cost of equity capital (COEC), empirical evidence remains inconsistent. This study addresses these inconsistencies through a comprehensive meta‐analysis of 1139 effect sizes from 75 studies.
Robert Witte, Ewald Aschauer, Helmut Pernsteiner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iceberg water transportation from Antarctica to Australia

, 2012
The amount of iceberg water that annually dissolves into the sea corresponds to a substantial part of the world's annual consumption of freshwater. The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) has 30 % of the icebergs of the world.
Spandonide, B (15916580)
core   +1 more source