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Analysis of the Impact of Cereal Product Import-Export on GDP in Romania [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2019
Imports and exports have a major influence on Gross Domestic Product. In this study it was made a non-linear regression model based on the Cobb-Douglas function. Production function is used in many economic researches.
Geanina COLAN   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change Exposure and Firms' Biodiversity Impact Reduction Strategy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate change exposure shapes long‐run biodiversity disclosure strategies, for instance, by informing efforts to reduce biodiversity impacts and by contributing to the existing environment and strategy literature in various ways. First, this paper adds insight into horizon issues related to climate change and shows
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests Can Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Timber Production

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2016
The REDD+ scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has provided opportunities to manage tropical forests for timber production and carbon emission reductions.
Nophea Sasaki   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBusiness 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Business R&D in Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From the Nordic Countries

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As environmental sustainability becomes an increasingly important concern for advanced economies, the role of business innovation in relation to environmental outcomes has attracted increasing attention. This study examines the relationship between business enterprise research and development (BERD) and environmental sustainability in the ...
Abdullah Emre Caglar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private vs. Community Management Responses to De-Collectivization: Illustrative Cases from China

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2020
Over the last several decades, China has undergone several distinct episodes of collectivization and de-collectivization of forest property rights. China’s latest round of collective forest property reforms, launched in 2003, have promoted individual ...
Jinlong Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance assessment of a potential underground thermal storage facility: Case study of the closed mine Prosper‐Haniel in the Ruhr coal mining area in Germany

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates the feasibility of an underground closed‐loop thermal storage facility at a post‐mining site, intended for seasonal heat energy storage. Its principal design shows water flow directions in winter and summer (1, 2), heat pumps (3), an upper water reservoir (4), and connecting pipes (5).
Dmytro Rudakov, Oleksandr Inkin
wiley   +1 more source

Regeneration failure, fire, topography, and climate interact to drive temperate wet forest landscapes into fire traps

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Where early successional forests are more flammable than old‐growth forests, forested landscapes are vulnerable to shifting into ‘fire traps' through positive feedbacks, where fire leads to more fire. These feedbacks are amplified by increased flammability driven by climate change, the presence of non‐native flammable plant species, and slowed ...
George L. W. Perry   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining paleoecology and modeling to explore cascading disturbances in forest ecosystems

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Climate‐induced cascading disturbance interactions pose a major challenge to the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services to society. Developing a deeper understanding and enhanced capacity to simulate these interactions is essential for identifying disturbance‐induced tipping points in forest ecosystems, and for improving management in ...
Cécile C. Remy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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