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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

Human detection with smoke occlusion based on AI-generated images

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
Detecting occupants trapped in buildings is challenging during fire accidents because of the dense, rapidly spreading smoke. To this end, this paper proposes a human detection method that accounts for smoke occlusion, based on artificial intelligence (AI)
Zhen Xu, Xiyan Tang, Wenting Li, Yujie Zhao, Donglian Gu, Yuan Tian   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent river heatwaves are emerging worldwide under climate change

Nature Communications
Rivers and the organisms living within them are highly vulnerable to hot thermal extremes. However, very little is known about river heatwaves, consecutive episodes of anomalously high temperature in rivers, and how they may evolve under climate change ...
Yiling Chen, Zhiying Su, R. Iestyn Woolway, Niko Wanders, Sijia Wu, Ziwei Huang, Ming Luo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

SDDT-SR: A Scale-Decoupling Super-Resolution Network With Domain Transfer for Heterogeneous Images

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Super-resolution image reconstruction (SRR) is an important task in remote sensing image (RSI) processing, which can serve the application fields, such as natural resources exploration and agricultural monitoring.
Simin Lin, Jiangdi Ru, Jiaqi Li, Keyao Wen, Mengxi Liu, Qian Shi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Focus: How Entrepreneurs Tackling the Grand Challenge of Waste Management Navigate Institutional and Market Adversity in Ghana

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Augustine Awuah Peprah, Bede Akorige Atarah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fine-Grained Urban Village Extraction by Mask Transformer From High-Resolution Satellite Images in Pearl River Delta

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Urban renewal has led to the proliferation of informal urban habitats, such as slums, shanty towns, and urban villages (UVs). As an important component of urban renewal, UVs influence urban spatial structure and land use patterns.
Zhuoqun Chai, Mengxi Liu, Qian Shi, Yuanyuan Zhang, Minglin Zuo, Da He   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Socially Inclusive Circular Economy: Evidence From Social Enterprises in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) and social entrepreneurship (SE) are increasingly recognised as critical pathways for sustainable development, yet CE research often underplays social inclusion, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
Maria L. Granados, Adeyemi Adelekan
wiley   +1 more source

Long-term urban resilience trajectories following earthquakes

npj Urban Sustainability
Disasters have a sustained impact on cities, highlighting the need for long-term urban resilience beyond immediate recovery. This resilience encompasses not only immediate rebuilding efforts but also extensive urban development, aimed at making cities ...
Zhen Xu, Yingying Wu, Yuan Tian, Donglian Gu, Qingrui Yue, Xinzheng Lu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy and Market Mechanisms for Sustainable Finance: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable finance has emerged as a critical instrument for addressing the dual challenges of climate change and sustainable development. Nonetheless, a substantial financing gap persists, while the concept remains under‐theorized without a universally accepted definition, and empirical evidence of its effectiveness remains inconsistent and ...
Jihyung Joo, Byounguk Keum, Taewoo Roh
wiley   +1 more source