Sustainability Index: A Tool to Measure Environmental Performance of an Indian City

A Russell Measure for Modeling Environmental Performance

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. However, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. Therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

The Pilot Environmental Performance Index 2006 as a Tool for Optimising Environmental Sustainability at the Country Level

Assessment of environmental health status of Iran according to the environmental performance index report in 2018

Background and Objective: In this study, we aimed to assess Iran’s position and trends for environmental health status among the countries of “Iran’s perspective document in 1404” according to the indicators used in Environmental Performance Index (EPI) report in 2018. Materials and Methods: The score of indicators in environmental health area; air quality (including household solid fuels, exp...

a russell measure for modeling environmental performance

data envelopment analysis (dea) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. however, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

Masdar City: A model of urban environmental sustainability

In recent years, various proposals have emerged for the construction of “eco-cities,” specially designed communities with an explicit environmental focus that often incorporate technologically sophisticated building design, comprehensive master-planning, renewable energy sources, and efforts to achieve resource self-sufficiency. This trend, however, is subject to intense criticism among some pr...