Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations …

versucht, die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Regionen Polens mit einem zusammenfassenden Index zu messen, der dem Ansatz des Huggin …

A prototype multi-purpose index is proposed for use in the evaluation of practices for adaptation to climate … variability and change. The Index of Usefulness of Practices for Adaptation (IUPA) allows the user to assign weights and scores to … a set of user-defined evaluation criteria. Individual criterion scores are aggregated into a final index value. Both the …

Indicator and index-building activities have become commonplace for assessing and estimating social, environmental, and … displacement risk index (DRI) and results for a snapshot year of 2007. The study area, 158 counties in the United States, was the …

on water resources. This paper will introduce a new index, which will be called the Governance and Climate Vulnerability … Index (GCVI). The index will measure the vulnerability of each country vis-à-vis water-related issues, while taking into …

Malaysia, and subsequently, to produce an Index of Family Well-Being. To build the set of indicators, domains of family well … hypothesized. This model was used to guide the development of the Index of Family Well-being. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA …—family relationships, economic situation, health and safety, community relationship and religion/spirituality. The Index of Family Well …

paper identifies challenges to quality and acceptance and is based on a case study of a social vulnerability index of river …

This article explores the establishment of a City Governance Index to evaluate the levels of governance of cities. We …