Medical centers (that is, hospitals and clinics) in metropolitan areas produce substantial amounts of hazardous waste in both solid and liquid (wastewater) forms. Unless medical centers manage their waste with appropriate care, the significant hazards posed to urban residents and areas far outweigh the benefits of their services. Therefore, comprehensive environmental management programs need t...

Tourism is a multidimensional economic activity that has an interaction with the environment. On one hand, environmental resources provide the raw material for tourism, while on the other, tourism imposes a variety of negative and positive impacts (wanted or unwanted) on the environment through the creation of various by-products. The main purpose of the current study is to investigate the rela...

We propose a holistic evaluation framework that banks could adopt when screening corporate entities. The is based on the development of composite indicator social, environmental and financial performance. This integrated view conceptually aligned with ISO standards empirical proposals academics market practitioners in defining inclusive complement those methodological permits incorporation plet...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained great popularity in environmental performance measurement because it can provide a synthetic standardized environmental performance index when pollutants are suitably incorporated into the traditional DEA framework. Past studies about the application of DEA to environmental performance measurement often follow the concept of radial efficiency measures....

As the subject of how economic development affects the quality of the natural environment has gained great momentum, this paper focuses on examining the extent to which the openness of a market economy and the quality of the institution affect environmental performance. The majority of the current studies focus on the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the level of economic growth. This paper addr...

Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is used to rank the performance in environment protection for most of the countries in the world. EPI is a score which gives a gauge at a national government scale using the method of proximity-to-target value. The current method fails to consider incomplete and vague environment data in its computations. This paper proposes a new score of EPI using a decis...

Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has been introduced since 2006 to depict the environmental performance for most of the countries in the world. The index considers ten policy categories associated with environmental public health and ecosystem sustainability. The main mathematics operation in establishing EPI is arithmetic mean of all ten policy categories. However, this operation carries ...