Data Envelopment Analysis for Measuring Environmental Performance

Peng Zhou, Kim Leng Poh and B.W. Ang ()
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Kim Leng Poh: National University of Singapore

Chapter Chapter 2 in Handbook of Operations Analytics Using Data Envelopment Analysis, 2016, pp 31-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Environmental performance measurement provides an analytical foundation for environmental policy analysis and decision making. As a popular performance evaluation tool, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been applied to construct environmental performance index in different ways, where modeling undesirable outputs and the choice/construction of efficiency measures are the main steps. This chapter gives an introductory text on applications of DEA to environmental performance measurement by describing the formulation of environmental DEA technologies as well as radial and non-radial DEA models for constructing pure environmental efficiency/productivity index. A case study on measuring the environmental performance of OECD countries is presented. Future directions of DEA applications to environmental modeling are discussed with reference to several recent developments in this area.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Environmental performance; Aggregation; Malmquist productivity index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7705-2_2

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