Emphasis on sustainable development and the need to protect the environment as well as the adverse effects of environmental pollution on the quality of life have made environmental protection one of the main concerns of economic policymakers. For this purpose, approaches to improve the quality of the environment and the factors affecting it have triggered extensive theoretical and empirical stu...

The main advantage and added value of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is that an aggregated index, with a set of environmental indicators measuring different aspects of sustainability, is more reliable than looking at each indicator separately. The Pilot Trend EPI, with information on the trends of nationsʼ sustainability levels over the last eleven years (2000-2010), is a particularl...

Subjective experiments were conducted in a climatic chamber to evaluate the effect of thermal environment on productivity. Chamber was conditioned at operative temperatures of 25°C, 28°C, or 33°C. Several computer tasks were given to the subjects to evaluate task performance. The effects of thermal environment on task performance were contradictory among the task types. According to the evaluat...

The sustainable organizational change has an ever increasing importance, leading to the rethinking of the management and systems of performance measurement and monitoring within the companies. As a reaction to current economic phenomena, in the first section of this work we tried to bring out the need for using the couple Balanced Scorecard Corporate Social Responsibility by companies. Thus, co...

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 ...