Countries environmental performance assessment

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Andreia Zanella (Author) FEUP; A. S. Camanho (Author) FEUP; Teresa Galvão Dias (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings National

Title: Livro de Actas do 15º Congresso da APDIO - IO2011

Pages: 37-51

15º Congresso da APDIO - IO2011

Coimbra, 18 a 20 de Abril de 2011

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Other social sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): Environmental performance assessments are often conducted using environmental indicators.Although these indicators provide a starting point for performance assessments, they do notprovide guidelines that countries should follow to improve performance. This paper developsan enhanced DEA model that provides a single summary measure of countries environmentalperformance, based on the aggregation of the indicators that underlie the estimation of theEnvironmental Performance Index (EPI). The main contribution of the methodology used inthis paper is to enable benchmarking, such that it becomes possible to identify the strengthsand weaknesses of each country, as well as the peers that inefficient countries should followto learn the best environmental practices.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15