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Tropical timber trade policies : what impact will eco-labeling have? [PDF]
About 20 percent of the total production of tropical timber is traded internationally. But for Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and some countries in West-Central Africa, tropical timber trade accounts for more than 50 percent of production ...
Primo Braga, Carlos A. +2 more
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Threatened bryophytes of the neotropical rain forest : a status report [PDF]
, 1992 Tropical deforestation, inevitably, leads to the local loss of bryophyte species. Recent studies show that the degree of species loss may vary considerably and depends on the scale or amount of habitat change that has occurred.
Gradstein, Stephan Robbert
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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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
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Multiple Use Management of Tropical Forests: On the Superiority of Land Use Specialization [PDF]
One of the debates in tropical forest management centers on how to manage these resources for multiple uses. In fact, although the need to account for multiple values in forestry decisions is widely recognized, its implications for forest management are ...
Marco Boscolo
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen +2 more
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Carbon Energy, EarlyView.Oxidative fast pyrolysis of biomass enables autothermal production of value‐added products. ABSTRACT Oxidative fast pyrolysis can potentially overcome the heat‐supply bottleneck of conventional fast pyrolysis by enabling autothermal operation while also tailoring product quality through controlled oxygen addition.
Bin Li +15 more
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Timeline of key academic milestones and individuals that shaped chemical engineering at FQ‐UNAM and in Mexico. Abstract One hundred years after the beginning of the teaching of Chemical Engineering in Mexico, which started in 1925 in the former National School of Chemical Sciences, currently Faculty of Chemistry (FQ) at National Autonomous University ...
Patricia Pérez‐Salinas +2 more
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Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011- Working Paper 283 [PDF]
This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). Our analysis includes 27 countries that accounted for 94 percent of clearing during the period 2000–2005.
David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer
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Societal ImpactsThe environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Nigerian Threatened Native Trees Project are presented. This project conducted propagation trials and developed a freely downloadable online Manual of Tree Propagation (MTP) for 55 native tree species ...
Adewale G. Awoyemi +3 more
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