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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
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DO TROPICAL FORESTS PROVIDE A SAFETY NET? INCOME SHOCKS AND FOREST EXTRACTION IN MALAWI [PDF]

We use seasonal household data on income shocks and forest extraction to study how households in Malawi use forests to cope with income shortfalls. In particular, we study household response to receipt of a positive income shock delivered in the form of ...
Fisher, Monica G., Shively, Gerald E.
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Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
Tropical forests provide global climate regulation ecosystem services and their clearing is a significant source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resultant radiative forcing of climate change.
A Tyukavina, A Baccini, M C Hansen, P V Potapov, S V Stehman, R A Houghton, A M Krylov, S Turubanova, S J Goetz   +8 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Complier Pays Principle: The Limits of Fiscal Approaches Toward Sustainable Forest Management [PDF]

This paper examines the role and impact of taxation on sustainable forest management. It is shown that fiscal instruments neither reinforce nor substitute for traditional regulatory approaches and can actually undermine sustainability. The paper uses the
Ivan Ruzicka, By Luc Leruth, Remi Paris
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Reciprocity on the Edge of Distance Paradox: How Sustainability Motives and Hypocrisy Shape Consumer Responses to Nearshoring

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan, Nilay Bıçakcıoğlu‐Peynirci, Ozge Ozgen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview [PDF]

Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, the reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations.
Sebastian, Kate, Wood, Stanley, Chomitz, Kenneth M., Douglas, Ellen M., Vorosmarty, Charles J.   +4 more
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Characteristics and Controlling Factors of δ2H and δ18O in Typhoon Precipitation in the Xishuangbanna Region

Journal of Isotopes
Extreme rainfall events occur frequently under the background of global climate changes. As an important contributor to extreme rainfall，typhoons exert significant impacts on regional environment and social economy.
Yan SUN, Bin YANG, Xueqin YAN, Li HUANG, Xianjing MENG, Wenjie LIU, Liang SONG   +6 more
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Issue Construals and Corporate Water Stewardship

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the face of mounting environmental and social pressures, the importance of responsible corporate water stewardship (CWS) should be evident, yet not all businesses are taking water management issues seriously. The aim of this study is to explore why differences in CWS persist, especially within industries facing similar resource challenges ...
Daina Mazutis, Mohamed Chelli, Sharon OSullivan, Katherine Hanly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source