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Water, sanitation, and hygiene challenges in last-mile artisanal mining communities in Ghana and Uganda. [PDF]

Dialogues Health
Owiredu D, Chidwick H, Kwagala B, Mensah D, Osei L, Kapiriri L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unraveling the Roles of Supply Chain Management and Resilience in Advancing Circular Economy: Empirical Evidence Using PLS‐SEM

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, environmental concerns have reached critical levels, emphasizing e‐waste management as essential to mitigating resource depletion. However, existing literature lacks frameworks identifying the antecedents of a circular economy.
Pedro Senna, Lino G. Marujo, Julio César Ferro de Guimarães, Leonardo Mangia Rodrigues, Míriam Machado Fabris Mesquita   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precise nanoscale fabrication technologies, the "last mile" of medicinal development. [PDF]

Acta Pharm Sin B
Bi Y, Xie S, Li Z, Dong S, Teng L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Supply Chain Innovations for Food Waste and Loss: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food waste and loss (FWL) remains a critical challenge across food supply chains (SCs) globally, with approximately one‐third of all food produced for human consumption discarded or lost each year. This study systematically reviews how supply chain innovation (SCI) can mitigate FWL.
Ilias Vlachos
wiley   +1 more source

Inadequate last-mile pharmaceutical waste management is a neglected threat to environmental and public health: a call to action. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Ravinetto R, Lates J, Jonkman L, Nangombe V, Hauner A, Coetzee R, Tarrafeta B, Bradley H, Ronse M, Peeters Grietens K, Van Den Noortgate J, Aljadeeah S.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Reaching the last mile with ivermectin mass drug administration against onchocerciasis: The case of Kwanware-Ottou persistent transmission focus in the Wenchi health district of Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Nditanchou R, Oluwole AS, Basnet S, Chailloux A, Saare J, Agyemang D, King SA, Osei-Atweneboana MY, Selby R, Opare J, Hamill L, Fodjo JNS, Verhoeven V, Schmidt E, Colebunders R.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Business and Biodiversity: Scaling Conservation Enterprises Within and Beyond Place for Transformative Change

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
wiley   +1 more source

Restricted insecticide application: a last mile control option for elimination of acute sleeping sickness and progressive control of African animal trypanosomiasis in South-Eastern Uganda. [PDF]

BMC Vet Res
Muhanguzi D, Wasswa AT, Abila PP, Mugenyi A, Kakuru M, Abizera H, Ainebyoona S, Kansiime M, Amanyire W, Nkamwesiga J, Kimuda PM, Rascón-García K, Matovu E.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Industrial Symbiosis as a Neglected Opportunity in Industrial Decarbonisation Pathways: Qualitative Insights From the Australian Manufacturing Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri, A S M Monjurul Hasan, Andrea Trianni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source