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This paper aims at reexamining the construction of indicators of standards of living, by focussing on the challenges …
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This communication makes a state of the coordination activities carried out by the 6th work package "Tools for actors" of the CAENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence. The WP6 is linked to the design and dissemination of methods and tools of territorial...
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concerned data and to facilitate its confrontation with the available indicators at the European level. A series of …
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This paper studies a set of indicators for evaluating how the quality of a freight distribution service with time … service quality setting, expressed as the width of the time windows, has been assessed using five indicators, which are a … generator. The results confirm the ability of the selected indicators to predict with a good approximation the transportation …
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Among recent high-profile propositions to revise national accounts and to provide new indicators of sustainability and … well-being, the Inclusive Wealth Framework and the related Inclusive Wealth Index (thereafter IWI), first released during … theoretical assumptions and gaps in data availability. We propose a critical appraisal of the index and its underlying framework …
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Climate change, demographic concentration, new needs, sustainable development etc. are many examples of uncontrolled mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in...
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assessment. At the stand-level, such assessment must be based on objective and quantifiable indicators measurable in the field …
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Biodiversity refers to the dynamics of interactions between organisms in changing environments. Within the context of accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide, firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to develop appropriate tools to account for the nature and consequences of their...
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This paper measures the effects of food price shocks on both the level of household consumption per capita and the instability of the household consumption per capita growth rate in developing countries. In this vein, the paper explores the role of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of...
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along which societies and economies evolve over time in such a way as to cover sufciently diferent vulnerability patterns … take into account the most relevant factors that defne the vulnerability of human systems to climate change and their …
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