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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565838
Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish … Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting … SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The …
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The literature on development effectiveness has traditionally focused on the ex-post analysis of projects. While this is the appropriate method of measuring benefits, a previous step must be taken as a forerunner to good ex-post evaluation: the measurement of the efficiency in the execution of...
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This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...
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Global warming requires a response characterized by forward-looking management of atmospheric carbon and respect for ethical principles. Both safety and fairness must be pursued, and there are severe trade-offs as these are intertwined by the limited headroom for additional atmospheric CO2...
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Climate change is a phenomenon beset with major uncertainties and researchers should include them in Integrated Assessment Models. However, including further dimensions in IAM models comes at a cost. In particular, it makes most of these models suffer from the curse of dimensionality. In this...
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improvements - meat demand in SSA is bound to become a major sustainability challenge. We show that a partial substitution of the …
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How to keep water and land stress within planetary boundaries is a major challenge for sustainable development in Latin American countries. Using an environmentally extended global multi-regional input-output analysis (GMRIO) approach, this study simulates future land and water demand for...
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Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
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