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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

Economics of Transporting Poultry Litter from Northwest Arkansas to Eastern Arkansas Croplands [PDF]

Applying baled litter from northwest Arkansas shipped by truck with backhauls, supplemented with chemical fertilizers provided the most cost-efficient method to supply nutrients to crops in eastern Arkansas, according to a GAMS optimization. Shipping raw
Wailes, Eric J., Goodwin, Harold L., Jr., Carreira, Rita I., Young, Kenneth B.   +3 more
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The Impact of Value Orientations on Psychological Reactance to Pro‐Environmental Normative Appeals

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how individuals' responses to descriptive (what most others do) and injunctive (what others believe people should do) pro‐environmental appeals depend on their value orientations. Across two studies using representative samples (United States: recycling electronic waste; United Kingdom: recycling single‐use batteries), the ...
Christos Kavvouris, Polymeros Chrysochou, John Thøgersen   +2 more
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The role of Pteridium arachnoideum(Kaulf) on the seed bank of the endangered Brazilian Cerrado

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The native bracken (Pteridium arachnoideum) often occurs in mono-specific stands in the Brazilian Cerrado, and this dominance can impact on both the above-ground vegetation and soil seed bank.
R. O. Xavier, J. G. Alday, R. H. Marrs, D. M. S. Matos   +3 more
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Fostering the stewardship of natural resources through EE: Assessing the strategies for minimizing beach pollution on the Durban beachfront. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2018
The Durban beachfront is a poplar tourism destination for travelers visiting KwaZulu Natal. In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the number of tourists vising the beachfront for several reasons - ranging from leisure, recreational ...
Preston Chetty, Joram Ndlovu
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AN APPLICATION OF THE PHOSPHORUS CONSISTENT RULE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE COST-EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF BROILER LITTER IN CROP PRODUCTION [PDF]

We calculated the profitability of using broiler litter as a source of plant nutrients using the phosphorus consistent litter application rule. The cost saving by using litter is 37% over the use of chemical fertilizer alone to meet the nutrient needs of
Martin, Neil R., Jr., Adhikari, Murali, Limaye, Ashutosh S, Paudel, Krishna P.   +3 more
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Consumers Behavior and Awareness on Packaging Waste Management for Circular Economy: Theoretical vs. Empirical Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo, Roberta Stefanini, Lisa Orza, Francesca Pezzani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of multiple impacts of marine litter in the Adriatic Sea: from fishing for litter to fish species

, 2020
The AdriCleanFish project aimed to study the impact of marine litter in the fishing system and how this can affect fish species and fishing resources.
Eugenia Delaney, Eugenia Pasanisi, Maria Cristina Fossi, Dario Giani, Matteo Baini, Matteo Galli, Cristina Panti, Margherita Concato, Giulio Pojana, Giacomo Limonta, Gabriele Galasso   +10 more
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Riding on a Pegasus: Is ‘Sustainability’ Still a Myth in Bangladesh's RMG Sector?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although a growing number of studies explore sustainability, the role of stakeholders and institutions in shaping environmental sustainability initiatives remains overlooked particularly from the upstream fashion supply chain contexts. Drawing upon the framework proposed by Lee, our study aims to fill this gap by examining the interplay ...
Taposh Kumar Roy, Saiful Islam, Yu Gong, Mazed Islam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increased Insulin Action, Glucose Metabolism and Muscle Function in Supervillin‐Knockout and Supervillin‐Mutant Mice

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We here describe mouse models with complementary homozygous Svil mutations. In skeletal muscle, Svil‐Mut mice express the Svil‐encoded N‐terminus fused to the βgal‐neo gene‐trap tag and lack the highly conserved archvillin C‐terminus; Svil‐KO mice lack expression of all known Svil‐encoded proteins; and Svil‐LoxP mice contain loxP sites for ...
Tara C. Smith, Lauren A. Tauer, Randall H. Friedline, Xiaodi Hu, Duy Tran, Yangyi E. Luo, Nacima Hadjout‐Rabi, Elisabeth R. Barton, Jason K. Kim, Elizabeth J. Luna   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source