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Corruption Control and Corporate Hazardous Waste Emissions: Cross‐Country Evidence and the Moderating Role of Agenda 2030

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo, Olayinka Adedayo Erin, Mohammed Kayode Ajape, Becky Forbin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as reported by timber companies. Recently, free availability of
Anne-Juul Welsink, Johannes Reiche, Veronique de Sy, Sarah Carter, Bart Slagter, Daniela Requena Suarez, Ben Batros, Marielos Peña-Claros, Martin Herold   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Field-Deployable Computer Vision Wood Identification of Peruvian Timbers

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Illegal logging is a major threat to forests in Peru, in the Amazon more broadly, and in the tropics globally. In Peru alone, more than two thirds of logging concessions showed unauthorized tree harvesting in natural protected areas and indigenous ...
Prabu Ravindran, Prabu Ravindran, Frank C. Owens, Adam C. Wade, Patricia Vega, Rolando Montenegro, Rubin Shmulsky, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategi Optimalisasi Peranan Polisi Kehutanan dalam Menanggulangi Illegal Logging di Kawasan Taman Nasional Gunung Palung [PDF]

, 2013
TNGP forest ranger has made efforts in combating illegal logging, yet there still found any illegal logging that activity. This study aims to identify environmental conditions inside (internal) and outside (external) on the countermeasure illegal ...
Nurdjali, B. (Bachrun), Rochdat, C. (Cucu), W, G. O. (Ganjar)   +2 more
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Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Forest Cover Loss in the Core Zones of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019
The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR) in central Mexico was established in 2000 to protect monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) overwintering colonies and contribute to the conservation of the monarch migratory phenomenon.
José Juan Flores-Martínez, Anuar Martínez-Pacheco, Eduardo Rendón-Salinas, Jorge Rickards, Sahotra Sarkar, Sahotra Sarkar, Víctor Sánchez-Cordero   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deforestation, Production Intensity and Land Use Under Insecure Property Rights [PDF]

, 2004
We propose a framework with endogenous allocation of land between agricultural production, sustainable forest management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and timber supplies ...
Amacher, Gregory, Koskela, Erkki, Ollikainen, Markku   +2 more
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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao, Zhichao Chen, Muhammad Nadeem, Guanghua Xu, Nader Atawnah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM PENGENDALIAN ILLEGAL LOGGING DI KABUPATEN PENAJAM PASER UTARA PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TIMUR [PDF]

, 2013
Beberapa puluh tahun yang lalu hutan di Kabupaten Penajam Paser Utara sangat luas namun apa yang terjadi sekarang hutan hanya tersisa sedikit. Kerusakan hutan yang sedemikian besar disebabkan antara lain oleh pengelolaan hutan yang tidak tepat ...
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State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance: The Role of the Narrative‐Policy Nexus in the Brazilian Amazon

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
wiley   +1 more source