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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
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Asset Redeployability and Biodiversity Risk

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how asset redeployability influences a firm's exposure to biodiversity risk. Our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that firms possessing greater levels of redeployable assets exhibit significantly lower biodiversity risk.
Mostafa Monzur Hasan, Stewart Jones, Md Enayet Hossain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substantive or Symbolic? Analyzing the Quality of Impact Reports in Italian B‐Corps Through Legitimacy Theory

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has become increasingly compelling, particularly among hybrid organizations such as B‐Corps, which seek to balance profit and purpose and are required to publish annual Impact Reports. This study assesses the completeness of disclosed information in the 2022 Impact Reports of 74 Italian B‐Corps, drawing on legitimacy ...
Laura Ferraro, Franco Ernesto Rubino, Carmelo Arena, Diego Mazzitelli   +3 more
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State of knowledge for invasive green iguanas in Florida reveals negative impacts and pervasive research needs

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
Green iguanas (Iguana iguana), large-bodied lizards native to South and Central America, have established multiple invasive populations worldwide. Where established, invasive green iguanas have negative impacts on private property, agriculture and ...
Natalie M. Claunch, Paulina M. Jones, Emily S. Khazan, Bryan M. Kluever   +3 more
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Trends in body condition in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from the Southern Hudson Bay subpopulation in relation to changes in sea ice

Arctic Science, 2016
Sea ice is declining over much of the Arctic. In Hudson Bay the ice melts completely each summer, and advances in break-up have resulted in longer ice-free seasons. Consequently, earlier break-up is implicated in declines in body condition, survival, and
M.E. Obbard, M.R.L. Cattet, E.J. Howe, K.R. Middel, E.J. Newton, G.B. Kolenosky, K.F. Abraham, C.J. Greenwood   +7 more
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What Do We Know About How Companies Manage Waste? The Effect of Tenure and Diversity of Directors on Disclosures

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the effect of board tenure on firms' waste management disclosure and explore whether this effect is amplified by board gender and cultural diversity. The analysis is based on data from 832 large firms worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez, Beatriz Aibar‐Guzmán, Salvador Marín‐Hernández, Esther Ortiz‐Martínez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Carr Lake Project: Potential Biophysical Benefits of Conversion to a Multiple-Use Park [PDF]

, 2007
The Carr Lake Project aims to convert Carr Lake’s 450 acres of agriculture fields into a regional multi-use park that will benefit flood protection, water quality, and wildlife habitat, while also providing additional recreational areas for the local ...
Casagrande, Joel, Watson, Fred
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VECTORS: Video communication through opportunistic relays and scalable video coding

, 2018
Crowd-sourced video distribution is frequently of interest in the local vicinity. In this paper, we propose a novel design to transfer such content over opportunistic networks with adaptive quality encoding to achieve reasonable delay bounds.
Dhamija, Arnav, G, Tejeshwar Reddy, Thakur, Abhishek   +2 more
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Identification Of Environmental Variables For Use In Monitoring For The Evaluation Of The Rural Environment Protection Scheme [PDF]

, 2005
Teagasc wishes to acknowledge the support of the Environmental RTDI Programme 2000–2006 in financing this research project.End of project reportThe aim of this study was to identify and select quantitative environmental attributes for a monitoring ...
Finn, John, Flynn, M., Kavanagh, B.
core   +2 more sources

Pulmonary development in Squamata: Insights from embryonic studies using micro‐CT

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Pulmonary development in tetrapods is a complex process, especially within squamates, where single‐chambered, transitional, and multi‐chambered lungs can be found in adult animals. While the embryological development of the respiratory system of lizards and snakes was studied in a number of species between the 1830s and 1940s, the ...
Barbara G. Champini, Raul E. Diaz Jr., Emma R. Schachner, Wilfried Klein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source