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Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar, Christopher Wickert, Svetlana Khapova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHANGES IN LAND UTILIZATION IN HUNGARY SINCE THE TRANSITION

The paper discusses the fluctuation of the proportion of cultivation, the development of agrarian operating and organizational structure, the separation of estate tenancy and land use, along with the change of law.
Magda, Robert
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Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets : evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]

Although early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure rights in view of increased demand for land, options for registration of a continuum of individual or communal rights under new laws, and the scope for reducing
Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Deininger, Klaus, Alemu, Tekie   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and environmental implications of the development of UASB reactors in Mexico for sustainable industrial wastewater treatment

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
Abstract The objective of this work is to demonstrate that the inclusion of an up‐flow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB reactor) within an industrial wastewater treatment plant reduces the plant's investment and operating costs compared to a system based solely on conventional complete‐mix activated sludge (CMAS), operating under the same design principles ...
Juan Manuel Morgan‐Sagastume, Adalberto Noyola   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda [PDF]

Although increased global demand for land has led to renewed interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues quickly and at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. The case of Rwanda's nation-wide and relatively low-cost
Goldstein, Markus, Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Deininger, Klaus   +2 more
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A partial envelope approach for modelling multivariate spatial‐temporal data

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract In the new era of big data, modelling multivariate spatial‐temporal data is a challenging task due to both the high dimensionality of the features and complex associations among the responses across different locations and time points.
Reisa Widjaja, Wenbo Wu, Victor De Oliveira, Keying Ye   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The paper land relations in Ukraine

Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Ґжицького , 2011
The article presents an analysis of land relations and land market in Ukraine.
MUZYKA P.M., DOMANSKYJ A.J., DOMANSKA N.A.   +2 more
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Land relations as a type of social relations [PDF]

Scientific Dialogue: Issues of Humanitarian Studies
Aygul Ulfatovna Khamzina, Rinat Fazltdinovich Gataullin   +1 more
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