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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite considerable costs associated with environmental certifications, fashion organisations consistently adopt multiple schemes to address sustainability challenges. As key mechanisms of sustainability governance, certifications expand legitimacy signalling opportunities, yet questions remain about their practical implementation and ...
Josephine Alice Mckenzie +2 more
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Estudos Internacionais, 2018 A partir de 2008 intensifica-se em escala global o interesse na apropriação de terras para a produção agrícola e/ou especulação imobiliária. Tal processo gerou impactos em diferentes esferas e a inserção do tema do land grabbing - nos seus diferentes ...
Lorena Izá Pereira
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates emerging soil carbon markets and seeks to identify the groups of actors and power relations that constitute their structure and function. Voluntary soil carbon markets (VSCMs) are emerging globally as a key mechanism for generating carbon removals as part of climate mitigation efforts.
Philippa Simmonds +2 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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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is a policy that prohibits access to the EU market for commodities that are linked to deforestation. We did a systematic review to understand perceived challenges, opportunities and potential impacts of the EUDR on producing countries of cocoa and coffee.
Alexi Van Loco, Marco Campera
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Water Grabbing in Colonial Perspective: Land and Water in Israel/Palestine
Water Alternatives, 2012 'Water grabbing' and 'land grabbing' have been referred to as a new colonialism, dispossessing small farmers and indigenous people of land and water for the sake of investors. The current 'grabbing' is driven by perceived scarcity of food and sustainable
Stephen Gasteyer +3 more
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Land, 2019 We examine collaborations between the state and civil society in the context of land grabbing in Argentina. Land grabbing provokes many governance challenges, which generate new social arrangements.
Nienke Busscher +2 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An understanding of the terrestrial extent, retreat dynamics and climate–glacier coupling of ice masses during the Last Glacial Termination (LGT, ~18–11 ka) is often limited by a fragmentary geomorphological record and is dependent on precise, accurate and robust dating frameworks.
Alastair M. Curry +3 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 This paper presents a political ecology analysis of intergenerational land dynamics in cashew-producing areas of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region. In particular, the paper explores how the growing commercialisation of cashew production for export is driving ...
James Boafo, Thomas Yeboah
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Fifty Years of Science—Research Vessel John LeConte
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, EarlyView.Abstract For 50 years, the University of California Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center's Research Vessel John LeConte served as the scientific heart of Lake Tahoe, enabling one of the world's longest records of environmental change in a large alpine lake.
Cara Kiger Hollis +2 more
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