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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite global commitments under the Paris Agreement, empirical evidence on the involvement of the land‐based private sector of emerging economies in carbon trading remains limited. The study analyses how behavioural factors and institutional complexities influence the involvement of the land‐based private sector in carbon trading in Indonesia.
Iis Alviya +3 more
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Polarised epithelial monolayers of the gastric mucosa reveal insights into mucosal homeostasis and defence against infection [PDF]
, 2018 Objective Helicobacter pylori causes life-long colonisation of the gastric mucosa, leading to chronic inflammation with increased risk of gastric cancer.
Berger, H. +10 more
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Advances in GPCRs Associated With Wnt Signaling Within the Auditory System
Medicine Bulletin, EarlyView.ABSTRACT G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) that interact with the Wnt signaling pathway are pivotal for auditory system homeostasis, as they orchestrate inner ear development, hair cell (HC) regeneration, and hearing preservation. Frizzled (FZD) receptors, the core Wnt‐related GPCRs, bind Wnt ligands and co‐receptors (e.g., LRP5/6) to activate both ...
Liang Wang +3 more
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Modelling as a tool for spatial planning of commodity production: the example of certified oil palm plantations in Central Africa [PDF]
, 2014 The Central African region is targeted by agri-business companies as a suitable place to develop large plantations. Most of the existing assessments of available land are based on an a priori definition of availability and without any operational-level ...
Feintrenie, Laurène +3 more
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Industrial investments in agriculture in Central Africa. Establishing the conditions for sustainability and equity [PDF]
, 2016 In Central Africa, industrial investments in agriculture have been increasing for the last ten years, constituting one of the many drivers of deforestation.
Feintrenie, Laurene +2 more
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In multi‐stakeholder initiatives, actors across sectors develop voluntary standards to guide firms' sustainability efforts. While multi‐stakeholder initiatives have long been a prevalent instrument of sustainability regulation, recently, there has been an uptake of legislation that makes it mandatory for firms to acknowledge sustainability ...
Leona A. Henry, Eva van der Zee
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Transfer of the Asian model of oil palm development: from Indonesia to Cameroon [PDF]
, 2012 Agricultural expansion to the detriment of natural forest is a well-known cause and consequence of economic development. Boom crops are exported cash crops developing very quickly in a region, in answer to a high demand on the international market.
Feintrenie, Laurène
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governance of sustainable development increasingly relies on voluntary standards and commitments, the credibility and effectiveness of which hinge on accountability—ensuring actors align with shared goals and follow through on them. However, voluntary initiatives operate outside traditional control structures and blend elements of state ...
Elina Vikstedt +3 more
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Towards the sustainable production of palm oil: which research do we need? [PDF]
, 2011 The cultivation of oil palm has become emblematic of the trade-off between development and conservation that agricultural commodities have to face: matching an increasing global demand while preserving the capacity of land to provide ecosystems services,
Bessou, Cécile +4 more
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Generalization Bounds in the Predict-then-Optimize Framework
, 2021 The predict-then-optimize framework is fundamental in many practical settings: predict the unknown parameters of an optimization problem, and then solve the problem using the predicted values of the parameters. A natural loss function in this environment
Balghiti, Othman El +3 more
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