and environmental aspects are considered as equally relevant. In particular, the focus is on the comparison and efficiency … assessment of Italian municipalities located on the costal areas. In order to assess the efficiency status of the considered … management units, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units …

in evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units. We consider here two possible applications of … applied to compute a relative efficiency score, which accounts for environmental and social benefits and costs interpreted as … policy (in the present paper we use the FEEM RICE model), as well as the choice of indicators for costs and benefits …

This study uses the EU public power generating sector as a case study to investigate the environmental efficiency and … Envelopment Analysis methods, we measure the environmental efficiency and the productivity growth registered in public power … productivity and efficiency over time using state-of-the-art econometric techniques. Our analysis suggests two conclusions: on the …

management efficiency per se may not provide enough information concerning long-term performances, which is what sustainability … of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key … environmental management. The proposed efficiency assessment procedure is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a …

technique specifically developed to assess the relative efficiency of decision-making units. In particular, the objective of the … discussed methodology is to assess the relative efficiency of the management units of the protected area and to indicate how it … efficiency of natural parks’ management not only internally (comparing the performance of the park to itself in time) but also by …

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …

Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …

performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant … environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on …

technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …