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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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New means of fastening of cargoes in railway transportation organisation
Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2019 The expanding range of goods transported by trains requires improving the design of railway train cars and methods of placing and securing goods for transporting.The article proposes new means of securing goods on the basis of such research methods as ...
L.F. Kazanskaya, E.A. Shaykina
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni +3 more
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Private capital, public credit and the decline of American railways in the mid-20th century [PDF]
From the mid-19th Century until the Great Depression, banks, insurance companies and other large institutional investors supplied railways with external capital that supported their rise to near hegemony over transport in the U.S.
Cohen, Jim
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The restructuring and future of the British Rail system [PDF]
, 2005 The paper focuses mainly on reviewing and analysing the restructuring of Britain’s railways, including the re-cently published proposals for its future.
Merkert, Rico
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Evaluation of management strategies for the operation of high-speed railways in China [PDF]
, 2002 High-Speed Train (HST) operations have recently been introduced in rail passenger transportation markets worldwide. Although the technologies for such operations have levelled at speeds of around 300 km/h, the operating parameters to be adopted in each ...
Ferreira, Luis +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The concept of predictive maintenance in advanced manufacturing systems is crucial from the point of view of resource efficiency in the era of high competitiveness forced by energy transformation in the digital economy. Against the backdrop of sustainability and the opportunities a data cooperative offers, the combination of predictive ...
Christian Schachtner +6 more
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An Efficiency Analysis of European Countries' Railways [PDF]
This study uses stochastic frontier analysis for estimating efficiencies of railways systems in European countries. We consider railways as a system which uses its infrastructure (length of lines worked, numbers of cars and wagons, staff strength) and a ...
Pavlyuk, Dmitry
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Rail Privatisation: The Practice – An Analysis of Seven Case Studies [PDF]
, 1994 After a brief description of the proposals for rail privatisation in Great Britain, this paper contrasts these with the proposals and experience in other countries around the world.
Nash, C.A. +3 more
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