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

Corporate 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, Mehmet Ulug, Ismail Demirdag   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cortical concepts: Advanced membranes for the timber age : Innovative façades for multi-storey timber buildings

, 2014
To an extent, the architecture of each era is dictated by the material context prevalent at the time. Architecture's Steel Age gave way to its Concrete Age, which is now giving way to the newfangled Timber Age. As has historically been the case, however,
Girhammar, Ulf Arne, Kaiser, Axel, Larsson, Magnus   +2 more
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The low-cost technical system of rural sustainable wood construction and its suitability based on the small-diameter round timber of fast-growing Northeast Larch

Case Studies in Construction Materials
Aiming to address the imbalance between ''sustainable advantages of environmental and cultural development'' and ''economic benefits'' in the development of rural wood structure architecture in China, as well as the disparity in development between ...
Ying Wu, Hongpeng Xu, Jianmei Wu, Yuncheng Ji   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mind the Gaps! Legitimacy and Expectation Misalignments in Sustainability Disclosure: Case Evidence From a Public Forestry Sector Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori, Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conflicts of interests on the issue of Timber Exploitation within the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brazil [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2009
This paper analyzes the problematic situation of commercial timber exploitation as a land use option in the community of Rio Branco, located in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brazil, and examines the controversial implementation of the ...
Alfredo Celso Fantini, Charle Ferreira Crisostomo   +1 more
doaj  

Carroll Round Proceedings 2015

, 2015
Undergraduate economic research papers presented at the 10th Annual Carroll Round Conference at Georgetown ...
Carroll Round
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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

Deep 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

Carroll Round Proceedings 2008

, 2008
Undergraduate economic research papers presented at the sixth annual Carroll Round Research ...
Carroll Round
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Design of a new test configuration for in-plane shear of timber

The current in-plane shear test methods only apply to some variations of cross-laminated timber in development. This research aimed to design a test configuration to gauge a wide range of wood panel products.
Fochler, David, Merk, Dominik; Liblik, Johanna; Werther, Norman, Viereck, Lucas, Schoofs, Nils, Lukas, Julian, Chair of Timber Structures and Building Construction, Fochler, David; Stritzke, Marieke; Hani, Christine; Lukas, Julian; Viereck, Lucas   +6 more
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Translating Across Boundaries: The Process of Integrating Forestry Into the German National Water Strategy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory processes are increasingly recognized as essential components of modern environmental governance. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the design and implementation of such processes, less is known about the critical phase between participatory processes and final policy outputs.
Sabeth Häublein
wiley   +1 more source