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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
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Corporate crime in expropriating land rights through intimidation and criminalization

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Corporations or business actors have an important role in increasing economic development, but in practice these corporations or business actors often commit business crimes that harm the community by means of intimidation and criminalization to seize ...
Dwidja Priyatno, Anita Kamilah, Aji Mulyana   +2 more
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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict [PDF]

Homo Oeconomicus, 2016
We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000–2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating that the negative effects of land deals outweigh their ...
Krieger, Tim, Meierrieks, Daniel
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Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
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Implications of Land-Grabbing on the Ecological Balance of Brazil

Resources, 2018
In the global free-market, natural resource scarcity and opportunities for preserving the local environment are fostering international purchasing of large extensions of land, mainly for agricultural use.
Luca Coscieme, Valentina Niccolucci, Biagio F. Giannetti, Federico M. Pulselli, Nadia Marchettini, Paul C. Sutton   +5 more
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Global land and water grabbing [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies.
RULLI, MARIA CRISTINA, Saviori A., D'Odorico P.   +2 more
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Behavioral responses of black bears to human presence and infrastructure in Yosemite National Park

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Using GPS collar data from black bears in Yosemite National Park, we examined how bear spatiotemporal activity in relation to human development shifted during the COVID‐19 park closure in 2020. In the absence of visitors, bears maintained consistent landscape‐scale space use but altered fine‐scale spatial and temporal behaviors.
Jennifer R. Green, Caitlin Lee‐Roney, Kathleen Patrick, Rachel Mazur, Robert Lester, Erin Degutis, Ryan Leahy, Tal Avgar, Naomi B. Schwartz, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor   +9 more
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How the Physical and Chemical Properties Affect the Heavy Metal Content in Surface Water in Different Types of Peatlands

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only ~3% of the global land surface is covered by peatlands, yet more than one‐third of global soil carbon is stored in these ecosystems and contaminant filtration can be provided. The extent to which peat humification (Fibric–Hemic–Sapric) is linked to dissolved heavy metals in peatland surface waters has remained poorly quantified at a ...
Stanisław Łyszczarz, Norbert Szymański, Michał Jasik, Wojciech Piaszczyk, Andrzej Szlachta, Mirosław Żelazny, Ewa Błońska, Jarosław Lasota, Stanisław Małek   +8 more
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Human rights aspects and Soil governance. A special focus on land grabbing

Soil Security, 2022
This chapter provides the reader with a general overview about the nexus between women, indigenous peoples’ land tenure rights and land governance issues.
Giuseppe Poderati
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A novel approach for in situ benthic habitat characterization

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Habitat heterogeneity is a key driver of temporal and spatial variability of subtidal marine benthic biodiversity. However, this makes it a challenging environment in which to measure and quantify the factors driving biodiversity in a consistent manner.
Ryan J. W. Mathews, David K. A. Barnes, Simon A. Morley, Gareth Flint, Lloyd S. Peck   +4 more
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