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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
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From Ecological Culture to Green Innovation: The Role of Ethnic Minority Corporate Leaders in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do ecological values embedded in ethnic cultures influence the environmental strategies of corporate leaders and their firms' green innovation? We examine this question in China's multiethnic context, where distinct ecological traditions across ethnic groups create sharp cultural contrasts that can be traced into leadership composition and ...
Yuan Du, Yingxin Di, Wei Cui
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Foundations for Farming Website
, 2011 Metadata only recordThis website provides information on the activities and outcomes of Foundations for Farming, an international NGO dedicated to promoting Conservation Agriculture as a means of poverty reduction and food security.
Foundations for Farming
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque +2 more
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Agenda 21chapter 13: Sustainable mountain development FAO progress report
, 2006 Complex environmental and socio-economic problems affect many of the world's mountain areas. In countries such as Nepal, Ethiopia and Peru mountain communities are among the world's poorest populations.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen +2 more
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Eva M. Mountain Diary, 1965-1969
, 1965 Diary, 1965-1969 of Eva M. Mountain (1915-1997) of Dover, Foxcroft, Maine. In brief daily entries she described daily chores and social life of herself and her husband Clifton R. Mountain. She would have been 50 years old at the time and makes references
Mountain, Eva M.
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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 +9 more
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European CountrysideAlmost 90% of Slovakia’s agricultural land is managed by holdings of 100 ha or more. The decline of small-scale farming stems from historical collectivisation, the persistence of large farms, and Slovakia’s entry into the EU CAP in 2004.
Bezák Peter, Bezáková Magdaléna
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Nomadic PeoplesBumthang, a distinguished highland district in Bhutan, proudly boasts a rich legacy of yak farming – an integral practice that has sustained mountain communities across generations.
Jigme Wangdi
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