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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Benefits of Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration for Urban Community Resilience in a Time of Climate Change and COVID-19 Pandemic

Land, 2021
The major global pressures of rapid urbanization and urban growth are being compounded by climate impacts, resulting in increased vulnerability for urban dwellers, with these vulnerabilities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
David Mitchell, Bernhard Barth, Serene Ho, M. Siraj Sait, Darryn McEvoy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Restoring Trust: Rebuilding the Forest Carbon Credit System Through Scientific Rigor

Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As pivotal nature‐based climate solutions (NbCS), forests are increasingly recognized for their climate mitigation potential. However, this potential is undermined by fundamental flaws in current carbon credit systems. Our analysis identifies four interconnected systemic challenges: (1) subjective additionality assessments arising from ...
Xiaoqian Chen, Shaokun Li
wiley   +1 more source

Land tenure formalisation and perceived tenure security: Two decades of the land administration project in Ghana

Land Use Policy
Ghana’s Land Administration Project (LAP), initiated in 2003, aimed to enhance certainty regarding land rights. What has been achieved since then? We explore landowners’ perceptions of tenure security in Ghana using micro-level data from two waves of the Ghanaian Living Standards Surveys: GLSS5+ (2008) and GLSS7 (2017). This data allows us to study the
Alhola, Sara, Gwaindepi, Abel
openaire   +3 more sources

Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz, Suzanne Kieviet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering Circular Startups: Unveiling the Blueprint for Circular Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular startups are increasingly recognized as key drivers in the transition toward a circular economy. Yet the business models (BMs) through which these startups operationalize circularity remain poorly understood, limiting the ability of entrepreneurial ecosystem actors to offer effective support.
Ann‐Sophie Finner, Linda Sagnier Eckert, Orestis Terzidis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China: Does Rural Land Still Matter?

Land
The purpose of this study is to test the response of rural–urban migration to land endowment while recognizing the heterogeneity of land tenure security perceptions.
Huiguang Chen, Wojciech J. Florkowski, Zhongyuan Liu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tenure Security and Land-Related Investment: Evidence from Ethiopia

, 2003
The authors use a large data set from Ethiopia that differentiates tenure security and transferability to explore determinants of different types of land-related investment and its possible impact on ...
Jin, Songqing, Berhanu Adenew, Nega, Berhanu, Berhanu Nega, Samuel Gebre-Selassie, Songqing Jin, Deininger, Klaus, Gebre-Selassie, Samuel, Klaus Deininger, Adenew, Berhanu   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Past and Future of Sustainability Indicator Research in Agribusiness: A Bibliometric and Forecasting Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes, Olga Cam, Aurora Carneiro Zen, Roger de Bem Jaeger, Daniela Callegaro‐de‐Menezes, Juliana Matos de Meira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source