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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

Plastic effects on marine and freshwater environments

Water Biology and Security
In the 1930s, plastic items started to acquire popularity. Since then, they have overcome many barriers and are now important to many facets of society. Post-consumer plastic, however, is an environmental problem of increasing concern.
Fabiula Danielli Bastos de Sousa
doaj   +1 more source

Plastic Litter Pollution in the Marine Environment.

Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, 1999
The distribution and abundance of plastic litter, especially resin pellets, were investigated. Resin pellets are widespread in the coastal waters and beaches of Japan. Such pellets that are the raw materials of plastic products are important marine pollutants for many species of marine life such as ingestion by seabirds and fishes.
openaire   +2 more sources

Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke, Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Christophe Christiaen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and characterization of marine microorganisms capable of degrading plastics

mSystems
The escalating crisis of global plastic pollution has prompted increasing efforts toward the identification of plastic-degrading microorganisms as environmentally sustainable solutions.
Qi Zeng, Liwen Chang, Yuqing Liu, Songbiao Shi, Jian Yang, Qinglian Li, Lijuan Long, Xinpeng Tian   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The development of an international regime for marine plastic pollution: fulfilling legal gaps to strengthen ocean resilience

, 2022
Plastic pollution is a modality of transboundary pollution, as it originates in one location, but when crossing borders by air or water, causes damage to the environment of other regions. Principles and rules regarding transboundary marine pollution were
Tarin Cristino Frota Mont'Alverne, Adriana Isabelle Barbosa Sá Leitão Di Pasquale   +1 more
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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

Agricultural plastics as marine pollutants: Empirical evidence from inland and coastal field surveys

iScience
Summary: Despite ongoing negotiations to establish a Global Plastics Treaty aimed at ending plastic pollution, agriculture remains an often-overlooked source of marine litter. While most global assessments emphasize take-out consumer activity and fishing
Carmen Morales-Caselles, Josué Viejo, Enrique Montero, Andrés Cózar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seabird biomonitoring indicates similar plastic pollution throughout the Canary Current

Marine plastic pollution is an emerging global threat for biodiversity. Plastic ingestion is one of the most typical and studied consequences with petrels being a particularly vulnerable group.
Navarro Molina, Alberto, Rodríguez, Beneharo, Herrera, Alicia, Rodríguez, Airam, Tejera, Gustavo, Sobrino-Monteliu, María   +5 more
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