Environmental justice (EJ) is a broad discipline that attempts to understand and redress unfair exposure unhealthy environmental conditions. EJ often made measurable with indicators, however the capabilities limitations of indicators can be difficult for policy makers understand. Using an exploratory review literature, this paper performs research translation role by clarifying key terms used d...

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is a key component of the ability of organisms to cope with changing environmental conditions. Fish have been shown to exhibit a substantial level of phenotypic plasticity in response to abiotic and biotic factors. In the present study, we investigate the link between environmental sensitivity assessed globally (revealed by phenotypic variation in body weight) and...

Hazardous waste (HW) management represents a central aspect of the environmental performance of industrial establishments in Egypt. In response to the need for monitoring this performance and the progress of industries in managing their HW, sets of HW indicators have been developed within the larger scope of environmental performance indicators for industry. The HW indicators address three them...

Environmental performance assessments are often conducted using environmental indicators. Although these indicators provide a starting point for performance assessments, they do not provide guidelines that countries should follow to improve performance. This paper develops an enhanced Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model that provides a single summary measure of countries’ environmental perfor...

This research develops a method to transform the Oregon Benchmarks, a set of internationally recognized quantitative indicators designed to measure a broad array of state-level trends, into indices of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Through multiple means, an original set of 90 Oregon Benchmarks has been narrowed into a smaller set of sustainability indicators in order to ga...

EPA Grant Number: R82867505 Subproject: This is subproject number 05, established and managed by the Center Director under grant R828675 Center: Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Project Center Director: Gerald J. Niemi Title: Development and Evaluation of Chemical Indicators for Monitoring Ecological Risk Investigators: Deborah Swackhamer, Matthew Simcik Cooperators: David Mount, Gary Ankle...

In this article, we revisit a foundation sustainability framework and argue that integrated sustainability indicators are needed to enable the integrated reporting process. We develop Corporate Sustainability Indicators (CSI) for a major Australian diversified resources firm and engage with expert stakeholders in determining the indicators’ value and explanatory capacity. Importantly, these typ...

Improving the resource use efficiency in agro- ecosystems is an importantfactor for reducing environmental pollution. To evaluate phosphorus (P) efficiency andbalance indicators, research was conducted in wheat and saffron production systems inthe Qaenat region (South Khorasan Province, Iran) during 2011 and 2012, based on themethod of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) practices in Europe have been traditionally applied to assess potential environmental impacts due to socio-economic drivers implying specific land use (viz. infrastructure, building and industrial development). However, other socioeconomic drivers related to citizen behavior, such as household consumption, may significantly contribute to the overall loca...