Who Makes the Most? Measuring the “Urban Environmental Virtuosity”

Oriana Romano (orianaromano@outlook.com) and Salvatore Ercolano

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 112, issue 3, 709-724

Abstract: This paper advances a composite indicator called urban environmental virtuosity index (UEVI), in order to measure the efforts made by public local bodies in applying an ecosystem approach to urban management. UEVI employs the less exploited process-based selection criteria for representing the original concept of virtuosity, providing makes a cross cities comparison. In developing such a framework the main technical issue of constructing a composite indicator, involving the weighting and the aggregation phases will be overcame by using a multivariate approach. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Sustainability; Urban policies; Multivariate analysis; Composite indicators; Urban sustainability indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0078-9

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