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Science of The Total Environment, 2022
Human Development Index (HDI) and Environmental Performance Index (EPI) are the widely adopted indicators for measuring the sustainable development in socio-economy and environment, respectively. Sustainable development emphasizes the reduction of environmental stress, when improving human welfare and regional equity, and seeks a balance between human ...
Yixin, Zhang, Zhijie, Wu
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Human Development Index (HDI) and Environmental Performance Index (EPI) are the widely adopted indicators for measuring the sustainable development in socio-economy and environment, respectively. Sustainable development emphasizes the reduction of environmental stress, when improving human welfare and regional equity, and seeks a balance between human ...
Yixin, Zhang, Zhijie, Wu
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Environmental performance: an index number approach
Resource and Energy Economics, 2004Abstract Tyteca [J. Environ. Manage. 46 (1996) 281] reviews the literature on environmental performance indicators. In that paper he calls for an index that simultaneously accounts for resources used, good outputs produced and pollutants or undesirable outputs emitted.
R. Färe +2 more
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An environmental performance index for products reflecting damage costs
Ecological Economics, 2007Abstract Several studies have demonstrated how to use DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) based techniques to estimate environmental performance indices. None of these studies, however, are taking information on the environmental damage costs of the pressure types considered into account. This study is bridging a gap between environmental indices founded
Munksgaard, Jesper +4 more
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CISEF: A composite index of social, environmental and financial performance
European Journal of Operational Research, 2020zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Chrysovalantis Gaganis +3 more
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International Journal of Energy and Statistics, 2014
Environmental considerations are on the table for over two centuries now, since then the global community has made significant steps to mitigate the problem. Over the recent past, comprehensive environmental indexes such as the EPI index have been created so as to assess a nation's environmental performance.
Dimitrios D. Thomakos +1 more
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Environmental considerations are on the table for over two centuries now, since then the global community has made significant steps to mitigate the problem. Over the recent past, comprehensive environmental indexes such as the EPI index have been created so as to assess a nation's environmental performance.
Dimitrios D. Thomakos +1 more
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Analysis and modification of the structure of the environmental performance index
Экономика и предпринимательство, 2022В статье на основе расчета индекса экологической эффективности доказана целесообразность замены используемой в настоящее время аддитивной модели на мультипликативную. Иллюстрация проведена на основе сопоставительного анализа результатов ранжирования стран по результирующему индексу, вычисленному с использованием аддитивной и мультипликативных моделей ...
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Environmental performances of the wastewater treatment plants: Green Index
International Journal of Global Warming, 2020The Green Index as a new indicator to determine the environmental performance has been developed in order to reduce the unfavourable environmental impacts of the wastewater treatment plants. The main aim of this study is to reveal the environmental performances of the wastewater treatment plants. An industrial and a municipal wastewater treatment plant
Pelin Yapıcıoğlu, Özlem Demir
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An integrative environmental performance index for benchmarking in oil and gas industry
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016Abstract Significant environmental impacts are characteristic for oil and gas companies. Therefore, there is a special concern regarding the control of environmental indicators reported by these companies. However, it is difficult to compare the environmental performance between them because of the heterogeneity of such indicators used in the ...
German Frank, Alejandro +4 more
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Kodak's safety performance indexing—a tool for environmental improvement
Environmental Quality Management, 1995AbstractSafety performance has a direct effect on employees' productivity and quality of work life, and on company profits and image in the community. Enormous human and financial losses can result from poor safety performance, and all such losses are preventable. To prevent these potential losses, safety performance must be continually improved across
David M. Kiser, J. Grant Esler
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Case Study: Environmental Performance Index (EPI) (Human and Environmental Health)
2011In the EPI study, 16 indicators were introduced to analyze nations with respect to the human health and ecosystem vitality. Once again, indicators are used as proxies of an abstract principle and partial order shows how nations are ordered following these proxies.
Rainer Brüggemann, Ganapati P. Patil
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