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Managing with CARE: Family‐Level Outcomes of Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices in Family Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG practices offer various benefits for family firms; however, there has been limited focus on how these practices can specifically advantage the owning family. To address this gap, we conduct a multiple‐case study of six Italian family firms.
Rafaela Gjergji   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population pressure, land tenure, and tree resource management in Uganda: [PDF]

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This study uses aerial photographs and survey data from sixty four parishes in east-central Uganda to identify the factors affecting conversion of woodlands and traditional grazing areas to agriculture.
Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank
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What You Say Predicts How You Do: A Multilevel Analysis of Corporate Environmental Performance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between firms' declarations about environmental issues and actual environmental performance improvement across a set of key environmental performance indicators. Multilevel regression analysis was conducted using a unique data set comprising 7449 firms from 22 industries headquartered in 86 countries for ...
C. José García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INSECURITY OF LAND TENURE IN NICARAGUA [PDF]

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The objective of this paper is to describe priority actions for reducing the legal insecurity of tenure to land in Nicaragua. To achieve this end, the study explores (1) the meaning and origins of tenure insecurity as well as the implications of tenure ...
Stanfield, J. David
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Lever L’insécurité Foncière: Une Des Premières Clefs Du Développement?

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 1999
This combination of three short papers discusses afforestation, land tenure, and environmnetal legislation in Madagascar. The second piece on tenure insecurity argues that ultimately the state has been poor at formal land tenure immatriculation ...
Alain Bertrand
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Shifting perspectives: exploring land tenure transformation through six community-based solar energy projects in the global south (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia, Indonesia, and Peru)

open access: yesEnergy, Sustainability and Society
Background Sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy, and while renewable energy minigrid and microgrid systems are regarded as a promising solution for achieving energy transition and supporting rural development in the global ...
Bouchra El Houda Lamhamedi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing Policy (In)coherence in Germany's Energy Transition and Impacts on (In)equality

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and ...
Alexia Faus Onbargi, Ines Dombrowsky
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets : evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes
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   +2 more
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The Land Tenure Center in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
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University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center.
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