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The main challenges of sustainable forest management in the Amazon: why sustainable forest management in the Amazon should be reinforced? [PDF]

, 2019
Since the last 50 years, tropical natural forests have been intensively logged in the tropics to supply the increasing demand of tropical timber. Unplanned logging operations caused forest degradation leading to their conversion due to the loss of their ...
De Oliveira, Marcus Vinicius, Derroire, Géraldine, Herault, Bruno, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Kanashiro, Milton, Mazzei, Lucas, Peña-Claros, Marielos, Piponiot, Camille, Rodney, Ken, Shenkin, Alexander, Sist, Plinio   +10 more
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Rebound Effects in Circular Manufacturing: Overview of Potential Rebound Mechanisms Activated by Circular Strategies Across Key Business Processes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) is increasingly adopted by the manufacturing industry to decouple economic growth from environmental impacts by optimizing resource use and minimizing waste generation. Nevertheless, circular manufacturing often triggers systemic responses that diminish or offset their potential environmental gains, resulting in the so ...
Mariantonietta Ferrante, Claudio Sassanelli, Daniela C. A. Pigosso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical Simulation of the Semi-Rigid Behaviour of Integrally Attached Timber Folded Surface Structures

Buildings, 2019
Timber folded surface structures assembled using semi-rigid multiple tab and slot joints (MTSJ) have been shown to form feasible structural systems with high load bearing potential. However, for their further development and use on large building scales,
Andrea Stitic, Anh Chi Nguyen, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Yves Weinand   +3 more
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Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Do Robots Go Green? Unveiling Mechanisms, Thresholds, and Spillovers of Industrial Robotics on Global Ecological Capacity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between industrial robotics adoption and ecological capacity, measured by biocapacity, using panel data from 50 countries over the period 2000–2024. We investigate the transmission mechanisms, non‐linearities, spatial spillovers, and heterogeneity characterizing this relationship.
Brahim Bergougui, Hamid Ghazi H. Sulimany   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of the Auxin Response Factor gene family in kernel consumption apricot and association analysis of related genes regulating fruit size in distant hybridization

BMC Plant Biology
Background Distant hybridization is pivotal for fruit tree germplasm enhancement. Although successful hybridization has been achieved between kernel consumption apricot and almond, the hybrid progeny exhibits a consistent fruit size diminution compared ...
Caixuan Han, Wenke Zhang, Sifei Chen, Yi Zhang, Huan Guo, Lipang Yu, Lanzhi Liu, Panfeng Liu, Lin Wang, Han Zhao   +9 more
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Physiological Characteristics and Transcriptional Differences of Growth Traits of Persimmon with Different Ploidy

Horticulturae
Ploidy breeding is one of the important approaches for persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) genetic improvement, and vegetative growth of seedlings is the basis for subsequent fruit development.
Tingting Pu, Yiru Wang, Weijuan Han, Huawei Li, Peng Sun, Yujing Suo, Jianmin Fu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of timber as sustainable material for construction [PDF]

, 2014
Comunicació presentada a IN-TECH 2014 International Conference on Innovative Technologies (Leiria, Portugal 10-13, september 2014).Facing the climate change scenario, professionals and technicians of civil engineering and architecture are searching for ...
Braulio-Gonzalo, Marta, Gallego Navarro, Teresa, Lecha Sangüesa, Antonio   +2 more
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Moderate Drought Stress Induces Increased Foliar Dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) Concentration and Isoprene Emission in Two Contrasting Ecotypes of Arundo donax

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
The function of dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) in plants is unclear. It has been proposed as an antioxidant, osmolyte and overflow for excess energy under stress conditions.
Matthew Haworth, Stefano Catola, Giovanni Marino, Cecilia Brunetti, Cecilia Brunetti, Marco Michelozzi, Ezio Riggi, Giovanni Avola, Salvatore L. Cosentino, Francesco Loreto, Mauro Centritto   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source