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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque +2 more
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Viewpoint – Overreach and Response: The Politics of the WCD and its Aftermath
Water Alternatives, 2010 This essay recounts the story of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) from the perspective of a former World Bank official who is often credited with first creating and then destroying the WCD.
John Briscoe
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses and compares the eco‐efficiency of six olive production systems in the Alentejo region, southern Portugal, employing a life cycle costing (LCC) approach directly integrated with a prior life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCC has been increasingly applied to Mediterranean olive‐growing, empirical research in Portugal ...
Rachel Hermeto de Pádua Souza +3 more
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Non-Dam Alternatives for Delivering Water Services at Least Cost and Risk
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission for Water in the 21st Century estimated the annual cost of meeting future infrastructural needs for water at US$180 billion by 2025, including supply, sanitation, waste-water treatment, agriculture, and environmental protection ...
Michael P. Totten +2 more
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1994 Annual Report, Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards & Conduct
, 1994 Issued by Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards and Conduct 1991-1998 This annual report and recommendations is submitted to the Governor and the Director of Legislative Administrative Services for transmittal to the Legislature pursuant to K.S.A.
Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards & Conduct
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Increasing the Incentive to Serve: The Effects of a Juror Pay Increase in Texas
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although low juror pay is commonly offered as a reason why jurors do not show up to jury service, there is remarkably little empirical information on how juror pay affects summons response. This study examines four large‐sized counties in Texas before and after pay increased from as little as $6 a day to $40, analyzing patterns of the percent ...
Mary R. Rose, Max Lisch, Faris A. Husain
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Nepal’s Constructive Dialogue on Dams and Development
Water Alternatives, 2010 This paper describes a consultation process that took place in Nepal from January 2003 to July 2004 involving dam builders, dam managers and dam critics.
Ajaya Dixit, Dipak Gyawali
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1992 Annual Report, Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards and Conduct
, 1992 Issued by Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards and Conduct 1991-1998 This annual report and recommendations is submitted to the Governor and the Director of Legislative Administrative Services for transmittal to the Legislature pursuant to K.S.A.
Kansas Commission on Governmental Standards & Conduct
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From Prediction to Decision Making: PBPK and QSP as Regulatory‐Grade NAMs
Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.New approach methodologies (NAMs) encompass a diverse and rapidly evolving set of experimental and computational tools designed to generate human‐relevant mechanistic data for use in drug development and regulatory decision making. Experimental NAMs provide insights into drug disposition, pharmacological activity, and disease biology that are difficult
Karen Rowland Yeo, Piet H. van der Graaf
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Chixoy Dam Legacies: The Struggle to Secure Reparation and the Right to Remedy in Guatemala
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams brought global attention to the adverse costs of large dam development, including the disproportionate displacement of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities and the extreme impoverishment of development refugees.
Barbara Rose Johnston
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