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Sustainable entrepreneurship and legitimacy building in protected areas: Overcoming distinctive barriers through activism

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 72-95, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainable entrepreneurs operating in protected areas face distinctive barriers that place additional emphasis on the need to build legitimacy. To date, how they do this has not been entirely explored. This paper addresses this need through an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurs in a transnational protected area.
Hellen Lillian Atieno Dawo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

UP-Diff: Latent Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Urban Prediction [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
This study introduces a novel Remote Sensing (RS) Urban Prediction (UP) task focused on future urban planning, which aims to forecast urban layouts by utilizing information from existing urban layouts and planned change maps. To address the proposed RS UP task, we propose UP-Diff, which leverages a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) to capture positionaware ...
arxiv  

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Drinking Water Policy: A Realist Review

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have a deep, enduring connection to water. However, since Australia's colonisation in 1788, water management has shifted, creating ongoing issues for these communities. Notwithstanding the universal recognition of safe drinking water as a human right, significant inequities persist, particularly ...
Margaret Apolima Fono   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact investing in biodiversity conservation with bonds: An analysis of financial and environmental risk

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 353-368, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Impact investments have the dual goals of generating profit and environmental and/or social impact from the same project or enterprise. This article examines recent impact investments in biodiversity conservation—specifically, debt finance in the form of conventional bonds and impact bonds.
Benjamin S. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Study of fluoroquinolones resistance in rifampicin‐resistant tuberculosis patients in Beijing: Characteristics, trends, and treatment outcomes

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
We collected the clinical isolates from all patients with pulmonary TB in Beijing from January 2016 to December 2021, A total of 8,512 clinical isolates were collected, and 261 RR‐TB strains were screened. We conducted the drug sensitivity tests and sequencing for LFX and MFX. The MICs of the strains were mainly distributed at 0.25 μg/mL for both drugs,
Wang Nenhan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Air Pollution Control in Urban Planning

open access: green, 1961
Lee Schreibeis   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Plastics of the Future? Interdisciplinary Review on Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers: Progress in Chemistry, Societal Views, and Environmental Implications

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie International Edition, Accepted Article.
Global demand to reduce polymer waste and microplastics pollution has increased in recent years, prompting further research, development, and wider use of biodegradable and biobased polymers (BBPs). BBPs have emerged as promising alternatives to conventional plastics, with the potential to mitigate the environmental burdens of persistent plastic waste.
Sara T. R. Velasquez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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