When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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, 2009 Recent researches and projects suggest that the built historic environment and its maintenance can contribute not only towards cultural development, but also towards the integrated sustainable development, encompassing cultural, environmental, economic,
Mlinkauskienė, Aušra +2 more
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Business 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
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Landscape Evolution and Simulation of Rural Settlements around Wetland Park Based on MCCA Model and Landscape Theory: A Case Study of Chaohu Peninsula, China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Fan X +10 more
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Settlements and services in rural Scotland
, 1988 Uses a survey of facilities throughout Scotland for both the 1950s and 1981 and then association analysis to produce four types of Scottish settlements based on their service provision: ultra-rural settlements; upland townships; middle ground villages ...
Smith, R D P
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Cereal Chemistry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sitophilus zeamais (Mostschulsky), the maize weevil, and Prostephanus truncatus (Horn), the larger grain borer, are two notorious insect pests of farm‐stored products in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). The goal of this study was to determine whether there were interactions between P. truncatus and S. zeamais during storage.
Rashid Suleiman, Kurt A. Rosentrater
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Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of Rural Settlements in Low Hilly Region-A Case Study of 17 Cities in Hubei Province, China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Tan S, Zhang M, Wang A, Ni Q.
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Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality, posing a major challenge to its rapidly aging demographic. Early identification of individuals at high risk for future cardiovascular events is paramount for implementing timely preventative strategies.
Vansh Maheshwari +2 more
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of low back pain among users of a primary health care clinic serving semi-urban and rural settlements in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]
Afr Health Sci, 2022 Khumalo K, Haffejee F.
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RURAL SETTLEMENTS IN TURKEY (CURRENT STATUS – PROBLEMS – SOLUTIONS)
, 2017 Rural settlements are common in countries with economies largely dependent on agriculture and in countries wheremuch of the population is employed in agricultural sector. Such settlements are also quite common in Turkey.
Gökalp, Zeki, Karaman, Sedat
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