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 …

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 …

uniform. We analyze how climate risks could be reduced via an insurance scheme at the global scale across regions and quantify …

, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs … projects, in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium. We finally draw an …

. Constraining choices increases segregation and affects the stability and efficiency of the final allocation. Remarkably, the …