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Integrating biodiversity and business: Emerging methods driving the nature economy
Abstract Biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a material (i.e. significant) risk to corporate value creation due to links with climate risk, land use and social equity, and through growing engagement with frameworks, such as the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosure and Science‐Based Targets Network.
Sarah Luxton +2 more
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Stemflow Dynamics in the Jamari National Forest (Brazilian Amazon): I. The Role of Tree Structure
A portion of rainfall that contacts tree canopies is drained down tree stems as stemflow. Stemflow is an underexamined component of rainfall partitioning in tropical forests. To investigate how tree canopy structural attributes influence stemflow in the Brazilian Amazon, we measured stemflow, rainfall, and dendrometric parameters of 56 trees in the ...
Jeferson Alberto de Lima +5 more
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A implantação de grandes hidreletricas: desenvolvimento, discursos impactos
O texto aborda a implantação de Grandes Projetos noBrasil, em especial os projetos hidrelétricos, questionando a forma como ocorre, o discurso de desenvolvimento presente na implantação dos empreendimentos e os impactos impostos às áreas de recepção.
Elaine Mundim Bortoleto
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Severe frost events seem to be happening on average every 5 years, rather than 7 years, as previously reported in the southern limit of the Cerrado, a Neotropical savanna. We conducted this study in the Cerrado, where severe frost events allowed us to compare fruit production and frugivorous bird abundance before and after the disturbance.
Mariana Campagnoli +2 more
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Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets
Abstract Moral markets, designed to generate positive impact on pressing social and environmental challenges, are transforming traditional market practices by including more than economic considerations in their operations. The importance of these markets continues to grow as investors, regulators, and consumers increasingly put pressure on companies ...
Guillermo Casasnovas +2 more
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ABSTRACT In the face of increasingly complex environmental challenges, subnational governments play a critical role in implementing climate policies. This study investigates how intergovernmental interactions—specifically formal authority interactions and informal competitive interactions—shape the adoption of climate policies by Chinese provincial ...
Shiming Zheng, Alex Jingwei He, Yujie He
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Impacto económico de los cruceros : del impacto Europeo al impacto local en Barcelona
En aquest treball volem analitzar i projectar l’impacte econòmic que suposa el turisme de creuers a Europa en general i la ciutat de Barcelona en particular, que compta amb el primer port de creuers més important d’Europa i el quart port base del món. En primer lloc repassarem breument el paper del turisme en el desenvolupament
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Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing
ABSTRACT Focusing events are important in understanding policy change, as demonstrated in Birkland's work on agenda setting, the multiple streams framework, and the narrative policy framework. These frameworks emphasize the role of focusing events in drawing public attention to broader issues.
Megan K. Warnement Wrobel +1 more
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