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The Relationship Between Board Diversity and Corporate Environmental Performance: A Meta‐Analysis

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between corporate governance mechanisms and corporate environmental performance has gained increasing academic engagement; however, existing empirical studies provide inconsistent results. This study aims at empirically summarizing the results of previous research on the relationship between different characteristics of board ...
My Hanh Doan, Paul Ludwig, Remmer Sassen, Luisa Altenburger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of direct flights on tourist volume: Case of Turkish Airlines

Journal of Tourismology, 2016
Accessibility of a destination is an important factor affecting the volume of arrivals to a region. This paper discusses the role of direct flights in development of tourism in Turkey by analyzing Turkish Airlines (THY / TK).
Gürel Çetin, Orhan Akova, Dogan Gursoy, Fazıl Kaya Fazıl Kaya   +3 more
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Tourism as a promising area of the economic development [PDF]

, 2016
Проведено дослідження динаміки та регіональної структури міжнародних туристичних прибуттів, а також виявлено причини, що їх зумовили. Встановлено, що туристична галузь у світі протягом останніх п’яти років відзначалася стійким зростанням темпів свого ...
Mashliy, Halyna, Mashliy, Svitlana, Машлій, Галина Богданівна, Машлій, Світлана Олегівна   +3 more
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Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends

Ecography, EarlyView.
Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land‐use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land‐use gradients and other space‐for‐time comparisons. Much depends on whether the chosen baseline has already undergone shifts in species composition because of ...
Ariane Dellavalle, Adam J. M. Devenish, Crinan Jarrett, Nathaniel N. D. Annorbah, Augustus Asamoah, Kwame Boafo, Poppy E. Lane, Jake Owen, Alexandra C. Morel, Mark F. Hulme, Andreanna J. Welch, Ken Norris, Fiona J. Sanderson, Joseph A. Tobias   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Successful implementation of environmental policy and governance highly depends on the capacity to know about, build new and utilize existing governance structures. However, the theoretical tools and available methods to assess the complexity of emerging or existing structures are rather limited.
Diana Giebels, Arend Ligtenberg, Martha Bakker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tourism as a driver of economic growth and development in the EU-­27 and ASEAN regions. EU Centre in Singapore Research Brief December 2013   [PDF]

, 2013
Tourism is a significant driver of economic and social development.  It stimulates economic growth by generating income, employment, investment and exports.
Athanasopoulou                      , Anna
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Understanding Engagement in Collaborative Governance Networks Through Motivation, Learning, and Values

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborative governance networks are increasingly central to local climate action, yet research offers limited understanding of the personal, psychological, and informal factors that sustain engagement within them. This paper examines how such networks facilitate meaningful and lasting participation through an in‐depth study of Malmö Works, a
Gustav Osberg
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the of geographical space's length on the distribution of international tourist flows

Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2017
The article suggests and verifies the assumption that such a property of geographical space as the length affects the distribution of international tourist flows due to the distance between the countries of origin and destination of tourists, as well as ...
Oleksandr Korol
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“Passive” Scalecraft as a State Strategy in Post‐Authoritarian Environmental Governance: A Case From South Korea

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs a scalar politics framework to unpack how participatory rhetoric operates statecraft in a post‐authoritarian context, thereby illuminating hybrid‐regime behavior along a continuum of environmental governance. An examination of the environmental governance of an ecotourism project in South Korea is performed using ...
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling tourism demand to Spain with machine learning techniques. The impact of forecast horizon on model selection [PDF]

, 2016
This study assesses the influence of the forecast horizon on the forecasting performance of several machine learning techniques. We compare the fo recastaccuracy of Support Vector Regression (SVR) to Neural Network (NN) models, using a linear model as a ...
Claveria, Oscar, Monte Moreno, Enrique, Torra Porras, Salvador   +2 more
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