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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 +2 more
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The integration of storm water flooding and thermal stress potential in Tainan (Taiwan) and Groningen (Netherlands) [PDF]
, 2016 Stormwater flooding and thermal stresses of citizens are two important phenomena for most of the dense urban area. Due to the climate change, these two phenomena will occur more frequently and cause serious problems.
Boogaard, Floris +5 more
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Environmental Research LettersUrbanisation significantly alters the interaction between land surface and the lower troposphere, impacting occurrences of natural hazards. The influence of urbanisation on natural hazards like heatwaves, hailstorms, and flooding remains debated. However,
Dave Lommen +8 more
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Modeling of Municipal Drainage and Urban Channel Flooding in Coastal City in the South of China [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2015 A numerical model has been formatted including ocean, rain drainage, urban channels, and pumps by the software MIKE FLOOD which coupling MIKE URBAN, MIKE 11 and MIKE 21. The different scenarios have been simulated. The flooding warning water level of the
Xiyan Ren +3 more
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Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
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EXPOSURE AND VULNERABILITY TO FLOODS IN URBAN AREAS. CASE STUDY OF GALAȚI CITY (ROMANIA) [PDF]
Riscuri şi Catastrofe, 2014 Exposure and vulnerability to floods in urban areas. Case study of Galai city (Romania). Urban flooding is among the most severe ones, since it acts on highly populated areas, with high density of socio-economic objectives.
GEORGIANA BĂNUC, I. C. STÂNGĂ
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Bayesian inverse ensemble forecasting for COVID‐19
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract Variations in strains of COVID‐19 have a significant impact on the rate of surges and on the accuracy of forecasts of the epidemic dynamics. The primary goal for this article is to quantify the effects of varying strains of COVID‐19 on ensemble forecasts of individual “surges.” By modelling the disease dynamics with an SIR model, we solve the ...
Kimberly Kroetch, Don Estep
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Urban Watershed/Water Body Restoration - The Driving Forces [PDF]
, 2008 Urban streams are used for several purposes. Some uses are conflicting and some are complementary. The use of urban water bodies and the resolution of conflicts is driven by anthropogenic and biocentric/ecocentric interests that must be optimized and the
Clark, David E. +2 more
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Ocupación urbana de zonas con riesgo de inundación y dinámica territorial: El caso de las aglomeraciones del Gran Nador (Marruecos) [PDF]
, 2018 Flooding in the urban environment has long been a major concern for territorial actors as well as for the local population in the Great Nador region. It affects, in a recurring way, the main urban agglomerations and the peripheral zones which surround ...
El Amrani, Hassan, Tribak, Abdellatif
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increasingly been recognized as a strategic lever for enhancing organizational resilience. Although CSR literature is abundant, prior research has not fully explained how distinct CSR types, such as altruistic, promotional, and value‐creating, influence organizational resilience through sustainability ...
Badar Latif +3 more
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