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Nguyen, Tien Dung, Ha Dung Hoang, Tan Quang Nguyen, Ubukata Fumikazu, Thao Phuong Thi Vo, and Chung Van Nguyen. "A multicriteria approach to assessing the sustainability of community-based ecotourism in Central Vietnam." APN Science Bulletin 2022, no. 1 (October 3, 2022): 124–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.30852/sb.2022.1938.

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Nature exploration, or ecotourism, has been an essential part of tourism, and today takes on a much broader meaning beyond tourism that includes conserving nature and culture and improving people’s lives, especially in the indigenous community. Community-based ecotourism (CBET) has specific benefits closely related to the sustainability of natural ecosystems and community development. CBET can be defined as nature-based tourism, helping shape the types of tourism services, planning and developing destinations provided by communities directly. CBET is supposed to be a sustainable alternative to mass tourism by its potential benefits in Vietnam. The study aims to evaluate the sustainability of four CBET destinations in Central Vietnam through a sustainable ecotourism index (SEI) formed by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Based on the literature review, local people, and experts’ recommendations, a set of fourteen criteria categorized into five groups reflecting the critical attributes of the sustainable CBET that include environmental conservation, economic benefits, community participation, cultural preservation, and empowerment are analyzed. The raw data is obtained from in-depth interviews with 21 experts and 42 households. After normalizing, the results indicate that out of four CBET destinations, one is identified as high sustainability (SEI>4.2), two are neutral (3.4<SEI<4.2), and one is lower than (SEI<3.4). These findings provide implications for extending the AHP theory in tourism and policy implications toward sustainable development in future tourism.
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VARDARI, Luan, Rrezarta GASHI, and Hana GASHI AHMETI. "The Impact of Corporate Sustainability Index on BIST Sustainability Index." European Journal of Sustainable Development 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 375–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n2p375.

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Mass production, which started with the industrial revolution, caused both the unconscious consumption of the resources and the damages to the ecological system after the production. In this respect, the concept of sustainability, which is one of the most important conception of responsibility, is gradually gaining value in terms of protecting resources and transferring them to future generations. (Mori and Christodoulou, 2012: 94-106). Sustainability In the first place, it has started to be used mostly in the management of natural resources; later, it was used in different fields such as sectoral practices and energy tourism (Diaz - Baltciro, Voces, Romero, 2011: 761-773). Today, the expectations of the society from the enterprises have changed compared to the past. These changing expectations lead businesses to new searches. The most important concept that guides these quests is to be sustainable. The concept of sustainability for enterprises gains a new dimension in the form of corporate sustainability”. For corporate sustainability, it is possible for organizations to achieve individual results only to a certain extent. Because companies are affected to a great extent by all kinds of economic, social and even cultural formations occurring in their environment (Kuşat, 2012: 238). The most important benefit of sustainability indices is that it leads to improvements in transparency without the need for regulations, better understanding of the social and environmental impacts of companies and guiding them to reduce the negative effects of company activities. The BIST Index serves as a guide for companies on what to measure, what needs to be developed and what can be explained. Thus, it creates opportunities for companies to see social and environmental risks and opportunities and to manage their sustainability performances correctly. The index, on the other hand, provides information to investors and the community about the sustainability performance of companies. The aim of this study is whether the BIST Sustainable Index makes a difference for companies compared to BIST 100. "Does the BIST Sustainability Index really make a difference?" will be examined. In this context, data between 2014-2018 of BIST Sustainability and BIST 100 index will be examined. Based on the results obtained in the study, it shows that there is no strong evidence of the impact of inclusion in the BIST Sustainability Index on the stock returns of companies. At the same time, the BIST Sustainability Index has been shown to have similar returns to the BIST 100 Index. Key Words: Sustainability Index, BIST, Corporate.
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Haine, Kamel, and Dagnija Blumberga. "Evaluation of Solar Energy Efficiency by Composite Index over Four Continents." Environmental and Climate Technologies 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 774–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2021-0058.

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Abstract This paper aims to provide an evaluation of solar energy efficiency by composite index and to compare the value of solar energy across 19 countries located over four continents: Europe, Africa, America, and Asia. 15 indicators were evaluated for the year of 2019 and grouped into four dimensions: economic, social, technical, and environmental. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to estimate the weight of each indicator, and consistency tests were calculated to evaluate weight efficiency. The obtained results of the SEI reveals that the technical dimension and economic dimension play an important role in the solar energy efficiency of a country. The results indicate potential improvement areas for increasing solar efficiency. SEI can be used as a tool in assessing solar energy potential integration in a country.
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Kocamiş, Tuğçe Uzun, and Gülçin Yildirim. "Sustainability Reporting in Turkey: Analysis of Companies in the BIST Sustainability Index." European Journal of Economics and Business Studies 6, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejes.v6i1.p41-51.

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Sustainability reporting is a responsibility practice that towards sustainable development goals as related to corporate performance measurement, explaining and being accountable to internal and external stakeholders. Non-financial information relating to operating activities can be disclosed through sustainability reports. Sustainability reporting is a vital step of managing change towards a sustainable global economy—one that combines long-term profitability with environmental care and social justice. Sustainability reports developed using the GRI Reporting Framework covers results and consequences the emerged in the context of organization's commitments, strategy and management approach during the reporting period. Through the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Framework, the GRI works to increase the transparency and exchange of sustainability-related information. The Borsa Istanbul Sustainability Index, published since 2014 is an important development for the business in Turkey which is aimed sustainable development. Sustainability reports have been prepared on a voluntary basis in Turkey and in many countries. In line with global developments the number of business is increasing who prefer to explain activities of economic, environmental and social dimensions through corporate sustainability reports in Turkey as well. This study conceptually reviews sustainability reporting and its benefits for the business. In order to see the effectiveness of the sustainability reports, sustainability reports of business in the BIST sustainability index will be subjected to content analysis basis GRI Reporting Principles on voluntary basis.
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Singh, Ajay Kumar, Bhim Jyoti, Sanjeev Kumar, and Sanjaya Kumar Lenka. "Assessment of Global Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability, Economic Development and Social Development Index in Selected Economies." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 16, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 123–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.160113.

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This study assesses the association of sustainable development (SD) with environmental technologies, forest area and developmental indictors in selected 39 economies. It develops global sustainable development index (GSDI) as an integration of environmental sustainability index (ESI), economic development index (EDI) and social development index (SDI) during 2000-2016 using composite Z-score technique. Thereupon, it explores the influence of environmental technologies, deforestation, ESI, EDI and SDI on GSDI using country-wise panel data. The results infer that there exists a high inequality in SD due to diversity in socio-economic structure of selected countries. Most developed economies have a better position in SD due to their relatively better position in environmental, economic and social developmental related variables. India, South Africa and Tunisia have low values of ESI, EDI and SDI, thus, these countries are in worst position in SD. Empirical results exhibit that SD is positively associated with environmental, economic and social development, forest area and environmental technologies. It recommended that protection of forest area maintains the quantity and quality of natural resources and provide ecological security. Accessibility of electricity for all community, discovery of environmental technologies, use of green technologies in production activities may be effective to increase socio-economic, environmental and sustainable development.
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Stanković, Jelena J., Ivana Marjanović, Jason Papathanasiou, and Saša Drezgić. "Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Port Regions: MCDM Approach in Composite Index Creation." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 1 (January 13, 2021): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010074.

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Maritime transport and ports are among the most important linkages between global economies, handling more than 90% of internationally traded goods. Economic importance of maritime transport imposes significant implications on the social and environmental performance of port regions. The paper aims to create composite indices as relevant, scientific-based tools used in comparing and monitoring various aspects of sustainability across 37 sea port regions in seven countries on the European side of the Mediterranean, covering a five-year period from 2014 to 2018. The model encompasses Eurostat and OECD annual NUTS2 level data covering economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Two important indicators of maritime transport activity, maritime transport of freight and maritime transport of passengers, are included within the group of economic indicators. To create composite indices, the multicriteria decision making (MCDM) framework was used as an integrated approach of entropy in the weighting segment, and the Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE) as an aggregation method. The results highlight GDP per capita and population density as indicators of the greatest relative importance when it comes to port regions sustainability. The ranking results indicate that, despite the fact that Attica is the best ranked region in terms of overall sustainability, the largest number of top rated port regions are in Italy, Spain and France.
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Crisóstomo, Vicente Lima, Fatima de Souza Freire, and Maria Rafaela De Oliveira Freitas. "Determinants of corporate sustainability performance – evidence from Brazilian panel data." Social Responsibility Journal 16, no. 8 (August 12, 2019): 1053–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-04-2018-0102.

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Purpose Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing interest on corporate social responsibility by a number of constituencies – corporate managers, research scholars, policymakers and investors. In this context, corporate sustainability performance (CSP) has been a central focus of attention. This paper aims to analyze CSP determinants in Brazil, an important emerging market. Firm CSP is proxied by the membership to the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) which comprises environmental, social, economic and governance issues. Design/methodology/approach Logit panel data models are estimated for a sample of 2,685 firm-year observations in the period of 2006-2015. Findings Results show that firms operating in environmental risky industries tend to be leading CSP firms in Brazil which might be a positive consequence of the Brazilian environmental legislation that could be forcing such firms to be more committed to environmental issues. High ownership concentration reduces the probability of a firm’s membership to the ISE index signaling that large controlling blockholders may not see sustainability and governance concerns as relevant. Larger Brazilian firms and the ones with more growth opportunities tend to be CSP leaders. Additionally, the financial crisis of 2007-2009 had a negative effect on CSP in Brazil. Practical implications The implications of the present findings may be of interest to academics and firms’ stakeholders. The fact that firms from environmental risky industries exhibit higher concerns with CSP, probably because of the Brazilian environmental rules that has advanced in the past decades, show the prominence of policymakers in the critical scenario of environmental issues. When designing regulation, policymakers should be conscious of the importance of social issues and pay attention to all ways available to foster firm sustainability concerns. The additional evidence that dominant shareholders do not appear to see CSP as a relevant concern in Brazil points out an agency conflict in which large blockholders’ interests may be prevailing over other stakeholders’ interests. That is important to academics who study the role played by ownership structure on firm’s policies. Furthermore, larger firms, as well as the ones with more growth opportunities, seem to invest in CSP, possibly for seeing it as a way to generate competitive advantage. Originality/value As per the authors’ knowledge this is the first paper to point out the relevance of industry environmental sensitivity over firm’s commitment to sustainability issues in Brazil. Additional evidence is provided on the negative effect of ownership concentration on the probability of firm’s membership to the ISE sustainability index using a longer period as well as robust logit panel data model estimates compared to previous studies. Unlike previous works, the paper analyzes the complexity of a sustainability index in the Brazilian market. Such index comprises corporate social responsibility, sustainability and corporate governance concerns. This set of concerns makes it a complex index and requires a deeper rationale for the determinants of CSP as proxied by the membership to it, under the stakeholder and agency theoretical frameworks.
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Seconda, Louise, Julia Baudry, Philippe Pointereau, Camille Lacour, Brigitte Langevin, Serge Hercberg, Denis Lairon, Benjamin Allès, and Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot. "Development and validation of an individual sustainable diet index in the NutriNet-Santé study cohort." British Journal of Nutrition 121, no. 10 (April 11, 2019): 1166–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007114519000369.

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AbstractIn the current context of unsustainable food systems, we aimed to develop and validate an index, the sustainable diet index (SDI), assessing the sustainability of dietary patterns, including multidimensional individual indicators of sustainability. Based on the FAO’s definition of sustainable diets, the SDI includes seven indicators categorised into four standardised sub-indexes, respectively, environmental, nutritional, economic and sociocultural. The index (range: 4–20) was obtained by summing the sub-indexes. We computed the SDI for 29 388 participants in the NutriNet-Santé cohort study, estimated its validity and identified potential socio-demographic or lifestyle differences across the SDI quintile. In our sample, the SDI (mean=12·10/20; 95 % CI 12·07, 12·13) was highly correlated to all the sub-indexes that exerted substantial influence on the participants’ ranking. The environmental and economical sub-indexes were the most and less correlated with the SDI (Pearson R2 0·66 and 0·52, respectively). Dietary patterns of participants with a high SDI (considered as more sustainable) were concordant with the already published sustainable diets. Participants with high SDI scores were more often women (24 %), post-secondary graduates (22 %) and vegetarians or vegans (7 %), without obesity (16 %). Finally, the SDI could be a useful tool to easily assess the sustainability-related changes in dietary patterns, estimate the association with long-term health outcomes and help guide future public health policies.
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Zahid, Muhammad, José Moleiro Martins, Haseeb Ur Rahman, Mário Nuno Mata, Syed Asim Shah, and Pedro Neves Mata. "The Interconnection between Decent Workplace and Firm Financial Performance through the Mediation of Environmental Sustainability: Lessons from an Emerging Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 20, 2021): 4570. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084570.

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This study aimed to investigate the impact of some important Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as the decent workplace, climate change, and economic sustainability on firm financial performance (see Goals 8 and 13). By adopting an index from the previous literature, this study collected data from the annual and sustainability reports of the publicly listed companies of a developing country through content analysis from 2016 to 2018. The results revealed a significant increase in the level of compliance with workplace and environmental sustainability during the corresponding period. Furthermore, the estimations of ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-stage least squares (2SLS) panel data also unveiled a positive impact of workplace sustainability on the firm’s environmental and financial performance. Additionally, we noted that the findings were pronounced after addressing the problem of endogeneity. Moreover, the study also found a novel significant and positive mediating role of environmental sustainability in the relationship between workplace sustainability and the firm’s financial performance. This study has theoretical significance by proposing sustainability training and development as instrumental variables in the relationship of the workplace and environmental sustainability to firm financial performance. This study offers practical implications for regulatory bodies and business firms to integrate workplace and environmental sustainability practices into their routine operations for achieving sustainable industrialization.
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Wurster, Stefan, and Steffen Schlosser. "Sovereign Wealth Funds as Sustainability Instruments? Disclosure of Sustainability Criteria in Worldwide Comparison." Sustainability 13, no. 10 (May 17, 2021): 5565. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13105565.

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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment vehicles intended to pursue national objectives. Their nature as long-term investors combined with their political mandate could make SWFs an instrument suited to promote sustainability. As an essential precondition, it is important for SWFs to commit to sustainability criteria as part of an overarching strategy. In the article, we present the sustainability disclosure index (SDI), an original new dataset for a selection of over 50 SWFs to investigate whether SWFs disclose sustainability criteria covering environmental, social, economic, and governance aspects into their mandate. In addition to an empirical measurement of the disclosure rate, we conduct multiple regressions to analyze what factors help to explain the variance between SWFs. We see that a majority of SWFs disclose at least some of the sustainability criteria. However, until today, only a small minority address a broad selection as a possible basis for a comprehensive sustainability strategy. While a high-state capacity and a young population in a country as well as a commitment to the international Santiago Principles are positively associated with a higher disclosure rate, we find no evidence for strong effects of the economic development level, the resource abundance, and the degree of democratization of a country or of the specific size and structure of a fund. Identifying favorable conditions for a higher commitment of SWFs could help to initiate pathways to become functional sustainability instruments.
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Rivollier, Laurent. "Prevention of oil spills by tankers : feasibility study of a safety and environmental index (SEI)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36063.

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Kelly, Gregory. "Development of a Sustainability Index for Local Roads in Southeast Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/415807.

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A high-quality transportation system is a necessity in a modern economy. The road network is a common, and perhaps the most significant, component of a transportation system and an essential part of all modern economies. Road systems are developed to enable the safe movement of passenger vehicles and freight at reasonable speed. Meeting this objective is essential for an efficient economy. A functional road network is not only an important part of the transportation system but also an expensive investment. Good policy requires that infrastructure investment should provide a return on the investment. This investment warrants judicious management to ensure the infrastructure is maintained in a cost-effective manner. This study proposed and developed the concept of a new Sustainability Index for Roads (SIR) using the three pillars of sustainability namely, economic, social and environmental. The reasons for implementing an index solely for roads are: to minimise the cost of road rehabilitation (has a high ongoing cost) (economic); involve the community (has little knowledge to make informed decisions) (social); and, to reduce the environmental impact of annual road rehabilitation programs across Australia (environmental). This SIR provides an alternative approach to determine the optimal future target Pavement Condition Index (PCI) for a local government authority (LGA). The newly developed SIR includes a community consultation option to make a more informed decision when choosing a future target PCI. This decision involves balancing the community’s expectations (social pillar) regarding the annual road rehabilitation budget (economic pillar) with particular reference to the return on investment (ROI) for their annual road budget and both the financial and environmental costs (environmental pillar) of the different pavement design options for the rehabilitation of roads. This study also produced a new tool for estimating the Return on Investment for the local government that provided their data for this study, for the rehabilitation of their road network. The study also provided a transparent low-cost method, to engage community representatives to consider what the community was willing to fund, using the ROI as above. The study also investigated the two most common road rehabilitation design types that incur different environmental impacts, from the local government works program. The study demonstrated that there is a difference in the environmental harm caused by the different road rehabilitation designs and that this difference can be shown in terms of costs to be incurred. The SIR developed in this study equips the community with the knowledge to make informed decisions about the pavement condition and environmental harm they are willing to fund, paving the way for better road management by the relevant authority. The SIR is the community’s chosen Pavement Condition Index (PCI) after consideration the new ROI curve (Future PCI Versus annual Budgets) relative to the achieved PCI is an alternative road network specific measure of asset sustainability to the current Queensland ASR.
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Soto, Palacios Miguel Ángel. "Towards the Implementation of Patterns of Environmental Sustainability in Production and Consumption: Sustainable Public Procurement." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118731.

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Public spending of many states makes a significant contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of countries, which are the main consumers of the national economies. For this reason, the purchasing power is an opportunity to influence the market by promoting production and consumption of sustainable and friendly goods to the environment.In this sense, this article discusses the system of Sustainable Public Procurements as a way to promote Sustainable Consumption and Production patterns and, thus, reach sustainable development for a green economy.
El gasto público de muchos Estados contribuye de manera significativa en el Producto Bruto Interno de los países, siendo normalmente los principales consumidores de las economías nacionales; razón por la que dicho poder de adquisición constituye una oportunidad para influir en el mercado, fomentando la producción y el consumo de bienes sostenibles y amigables con el ambiente. En ese sentido, el artículo aborda el mecanismo de las Compras Públicas Sostenibles como una herramienta para promover patrones de Consumo y Producción Sostenibles y, consecuentemente, lograr el desarrollo sostenible en el marco del concepto de una economía verde.
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Vieira, Paulo MÃrcio Souza. "Development of an index of hydro-environmental sustainability of mountainous areas (Case study: APA BaturitÃ, CearÃ)." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12884.

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In order to support an integrated management policy and the rational use of water resources toward sustainable development, it is unavoidable the search of efficient instruments to measure the performance of hydrological and environmental systems. Indicators and indexes have the role of translating numerically one specific situation and point out to the decision maker the sustainability status of that region. The development of a hydro-environmental sustainability index complies a multidisciplinary analysis dealing with several interrelated aspects of hydrologic and environmental parameters, based on some important criteria such as: water availability, quality and use of water, people access to water, environment impact.To the development of such an index in the State of Cearà a representative area of the semiarid highland environment has been chosen: Baturità APA (Area of Environmental Protection).A model structure based on the Pression-State-Response approach has been considered, resulting in the proposition of a Hydro-Environmental Sustainability Index for the highlands in the Semiarid Brazilian Region.
No intuito de dar suporte à uma polÃtica de gestÃo integrada e uso racional dos recursos hÃdricos de forma a garantir um desenvolvimento sustentÃvel à imprescindÃvel a aplicaÃÃo de ferramentas capazes de medir o desempenho dos sistemas hÃdricos e ambientais. Os indicadores e Ãndices tÃm o papel de traduzir numericamente uma determinada situaÃÃo e apontar, ao tomador de decisÃo, o sentido da sustentabilidade de uma regiÃo. O desenvolvimento de um Ãndice de sustentabilidade hidroambiental (ISHA) corresponde a uma anÃlise multidisciplinar tratando de vÃrios aspectos de inter-relacionamento entre parÃmetros hÃdricos e ambientais tendo como base alguns critÃrios importantes como: disponibilidade hÃdrica, qualidade e uso da Ãgua, acesso à mesma e impacto no meio ambiente. Para o desenvolvimento de um Ãndice desta natureza no CearÃ, foi escolhida uma Ãrea representativa de Ambientes Serranos no SemiÃrido do Estado - a APA (Ãrea de ProteÃÃo Ambiental) do MaciÃo BaturitÃ. Foi considerado um modelo estrutural baseado na abordagem PressÃo-Estado-Resposta propondo uma metodologia de desenvolvimento de um Ãndice de Sustentabilidade Hidroambiental para Ãreas serranas do SemiÃrido brasileiro.
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Connolly, Clare B. "Sustainability in the Apparel Industry: Improving How Companies Assess and Address Environmental Impacts Through a Revised Higg Index Facility Module." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078373.

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This study was focused on analyzing the Facility Environmental Module (FEM) of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s (SAC) Higg Index. The research objectives were twofold: 1) to test whether the indicators featured in the FEM could accommodate the data requirements for calculating environmental impacts of apparel products, and 2) to identify if the FEM indicators could satisfy the data and information needs of other key stakeholder groups. The long track record of irresponsible social and environmental practices in the apparel industry began gaining more attention in the press toward the end of the 20th century. Since then, many companies have been prompted to introduce sustainability practices in response to business-threatening criticisms. While these measures helped companies manage their supply chains better, for the most part the improvements remained at the scale of individual companies, limiting their effectiveness in implementing systemic change in the apparel industry. The potential for improving sustainability across the industry rests in the ability for apparel companies to engage collaboratively toward the common goal. Helping to facilitate this objective is the Higg Index, the SAC’s self-assessment suite of tools. The Index is presently composed of three modules, which use a standardized scoring methodology to rate the performance of an apparel company’s brand, facilities, and products, respectively. One of the issues with the current state of the Index is the lack of connectivity between the product and facility modules. Because the processes conducted at the facility level have a direct impact on the embedded impacts of the product, it is important to consider these factors when assessing the lifecycle implications of a given product. The second issue considered in this study is that facilities are often confronted with external pressures to report, comply, and seek certifications related to environmental performance. In practice, this requires completing data and information requests similar to those of the Higg Index. However, these tasks can be burdensome for facility managers who may need to gather data from multiple sources. If the FEM and other Higg Index modules were structured in such a way that they could reduce the time and effort required to complete other requests for information they would likely be more easily adopted. A gap analysis approach was used to test the FEM’s ability to yield valuable data for product LCAs and to understand its potential synergies with other data and information requests. First, the metrics that could be expected from a completed FEM were compared against the requirements of the product LCA methodology using a restructured excel file. This file featured all FEM key performance indicators (KPI) and included dedicated columns for mapping the criteria for data needed by each LCA impact category methodology. The second test involved using a similar excel-based tool to assess the equivalencies between the FEM KPIs and those featured in two example external frameworks: the Fair Trade Product Standard and the Cradle to Cradle Standard. Based on the results of these gap analyses, it became clear that there is significant potential to improve the assessment of facilities’ performance through the introduction of more quantitative KPIs. This would be required to calculate relative impacts for product LCAs and it would also help facilities gain a better understanding of their performance. It is therefore recommended that the SAC reassess the KPIs featured in the FEM and request more quantitative metrics. Additionally, continuing to evaluate the equivalencies of other sustainability frameworks may help the SAC to identify common KPIs that are asked by external organizations but not included in the FEM. These elements could then be incorporated into a future version of the FEM for a more comprehensive assessment of facility environmental performance.
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Butler, Colin David, and Colin Butler@anu edu au. "Inequality and Sustainability." The Australian National University. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030324.171924.

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Global civilisation, and therefore population health, is threatened by excessive inequality, weapons of mass destruction, inadequate economic and political theory and adverse global environmental change. The unequal distribution of global foreign exchange adjusted income is both a cause and a reflection of global social characteristics responsible for many aspects of these inter-related crises. ¶ The global distribution of foreign exchange adjusted income for the period 1964-1999 is examined. Using data for more than 99% of the global population, a substantial divergence in its distribution is found. The global Gini co-efficient, adjusted for national income inequality, increased from an already high value of 71% in 1964 to peak at more than 80% in 1995, before falling, very slightly, to 79% in 1999. The global distribution of purchasing parity power income is also examined, for a similar period. Though also found to be extremely unequal, its trend has not been to increased inequality. Implications of the differences between these two trends are discussed. ¶ A weighted time series index of global environmental change (IGEC) for the period 1960-1997 was also calculated. This uses nine categories of global time series environmental data, each scaled so that 100% represents the level of each category in nature prior to anthropogenic change; zero represents decline to a critical point. This index fell from 82% in 1960 to 55% in 1997, and will further decline during this century. ¶ Using evidence from several disciplines, it is argued that the decline in the IGEC correlates with major macro-environmental changes, which, combined with flawed social responses to scarcity and its perception, place at risk the ability of civilisation to function. This could occur because of the interaction of conflict, economically disastrous extreme climatic events, deterioration of other ecosystem services, regional food and water insecurity, and currently unforeseen events. Uncertainty regarding both a safe rate of decline and the tolerable nadir of the IGEC is substantial. ¶ Substantial reduction in the inequality of foreign exchange adjusted income is vital to enhance the development of policies able to reverse the decline in the environmental goods which underpin civilisation, and to promote the co-operation needed to maximise the chance that civilisation will survive.
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Muslu, Deniz. "INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION INDUSTRY." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17105.

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Abstract This research is designed to see the level of innovativeness of fashion brands in terms of being sustainable. It also aims to find out if there is a relation between business models and innovativeness within sustainability of fashion brands. Following the literature review, desk research, consumer survey and expert interviews are carried out. Desk research is made through web pages of fashion brands and some organizations. The information from the web pages revealed a lot about the current sustainability actions. In this desk research, 10 companies are examined in regard to their sustainability actions, to learn about what has been done and to see what can be considered as innovative in terms of sustainability. Following the desk research, a consumer survey is designed to explore the consumer opinion on the topics of sustainability and innovation. A consumer survey of 100 people is conducted at the Swedish School of Textiles. Due to the need for conscious knowledge about sustainability and innovation, people who studies or works in the textile school is specifically chosen as a cluster. The sample is called “Informed consumers” and is believed to have savvy about innovation and sustainability. How sustainability actions of brands are perceived, how consumers evaluate fashion brands and what they understand from “innovativeness” are some questions explored in the survey. Results are given via frequency distribution charts and maps. Following the survey, 5 interviews are made with contacts from the companies to study the issue also from the perspective of the business world. These expert interviews are verbally structured and are explained within the research. The method of interviews is qualitative research method and the result provides the reader an insight. To propose an assessment method for fashion companies, “The Innovation within Sustainability Index” is constructed. Although this index is inspired by some current environmental index models, the final model is original and includes the consumer perspective as well as author’s own evaluation on the innovative sustainability actions of the fashion companies. The companies which are evaluated in the index are: H&M, Lindex, Gina Tricot, Zara, Acne, Filippa K, Patagonia and Nike. At the end, it was not possible to point out significant relation between business models and innovativeness within sustainability. However, this result may differ when the model is applied to larger samples.
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Niskota, Jozo. "Environmental performance in cooperative enterprises as determinant of economic and social wellbeing in the Eastern Adriatic : the Cooperative Sustainability Index." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/36497/.

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Societies in the world have been struggling to redefine ways to general prosperity, although a general interest in a more human world order is constant. At the same time, cooperatives operate as privately owned for-profit enterprises having social purpose as their primary objective. The aim of this research is to investigate the potential of achieving sustainable development in enterprises operating under the cooperative principles to bring about human development and environmental improvement. The paradigm suggests interactions among environmental performance, economic results, social benefits and the ethical cooperative principles. Information on more than 1,500 coops was gathered in the EU countries of Croatia and Slovenia, and in one non-EU country Bosnia-Herzegovina and a survey was carried out among coops that were commercially active over a 12-year period from 2002-2013. After deploying the survey via email and through structured telephone interviews, statistical analysis was completed on randomly chosen 100 coops. The results support the main research hypotheses. First, the union of environmental performance and cooperative principles (EP&CP) confirm the existence of a relationship with the economic results. Secondly, the combination of environmental performance and cooperative principles (EP&CP) also indicate a relationship with social benefits. Above all, it is concluded that better results in economic and social benefits are gained in the group having positive Environmental Performance and Cooperative Principles (positive EP&CP) compared to the group where positive only EP was observed. This generally indicates the important contribution of Cooperative Principles to Sustainable Development. Using the survey data an innovative Cooperative Sustainability Index (CSI) has been produced as composite indicator measuring the success in applying ethical elements within two dimensions: the cooperative principles dimension and the environmental. Slovenia has the highest ranking score; Croatia shows less success at the second position; Bosnia Herzegovina has the weakest results. Sustainable development conditions across the Eastern Adriatic region demonstrate an interesting diversity in the environmental sustainability results among the states, but to a certain extent there are similarities as far as social and economic conditions are concerned. Paradoxically, socialism damaged social enterprises like coops in the post-WWII period in the Eastern Adriatic. This occurred not only because the socialist governments misinterpreted cooperative principles, but above all because democratic organisations like coops in a non-democratic society challenge the ethical orthodoxy. In the last few decades, the recovery of coops has varied according to their geographical location. As demonstrated, coops mostly positively prevent contemporary environmental degradation of the world’s resources but also positively contribute to economic and social issues; this puts them in an important position to reduce the inequalities produced by contemporary authoritarian capitalism across the world. In this sense, the first Cooperative Sustainability Index will find its future application and usefulness.
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Gonzalez, Mejia Alejandra M. "Fisher Information - Sustainability Analysis of Several US Metropolitan Statistical Areas." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1318610140.

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Alam, Shafiqul. "Developing life cycle environmental indicators for road infrastructure." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102099/1/Sheikh%20Mohammad%20Shafiqul_Alam_Thesis.pdf.

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This study delivered a comprehensive life cycle carbon footprint indictor for sustainable development and management of road networks. The developed indicator termed ‘Road Use Greenhouse Factor (RUG Factor)’ is scientifically validated for its quantification, impact assessment on the conventional cost-benefit analysis based economic interventions, and suitability of integration with other indicators required for sustainable road asset management. The study also made important contribution on quantitative indicator development methodology, dynamic aspect of life cycle assessment, road social indicator study, road sustainability index development and road carbon map development.
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Community, Business in the, and Business in the Environment, eds. Sustainability - the business imperative: Business in the Environment : 5th Index of Corporate Environmental Engagement : 2000 survey. London: Business in the Environment, 2001.

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Raskin, Paul D., and G. Gallopin. Global Sustainability: Bending the Curve (Routledge/Sei Global Environment and Developmentseries, 3). Routledge, 2002.

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Fredericks, Sarah E. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Fredericks, Sarah E. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Fredericks, Sarah E. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Fredericks, Sarah E. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Fredericks, Sarah E. Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Routledge, 2013.

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Stewart, Frances, Gustav Ranis, and Emma Samman. Achievements, Challenges, and the Way Forward. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794455.003.0009.

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The chapter reviews progress across countries on human development over forty years in many dimensions. As shown earlier, there was general progress on basic human development, measured by the Human Development Index. This chapter also shows progress on many other dimensions, including a rising number of countries with broadly democratic political systems, a decline in crime in many countries, and a fall in gender gaps in education and earnings. Despite a recent upsurge of violent conflict, this was mostly on a downward trend at a global level. There was a more mixed situation in some other dimensions—for example, homicides and inequalities rose while trust fell in many countries. The most pervasive failure was on environmental sustainability. The chapter concludes with a discussion of areas that the human development approach has not adequately incorporated, including social institutions, macroeconomics, and above all environmental conditions which may threaten long-term achievements on human development.
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Schmiedeknecht, Maud H. "Environmental Sustainability Index." In Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, 1017–24. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_116.

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Saisana, Michaela. "Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 1926–31. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_899.

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Mori, Koichiro. "The City Sustainability Index (CSI): How Should the Sustainability of Megacities Be Assessed?" In Global Environmental Studies, 163–82. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56901-5_9.

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Bellandi, Marco, Maria J. Ruiz-Fuensanta, and Erica Santini. "Factors of Environmental Sustainability in Italian Industrial Districts: A Composite Environmental Sustainability Index." In Sustainable Development Goals Series, 111–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61923-7_9.

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Carraro, Carlo, Lorenza Campagnolo, Fabio Eboli, Silvio Giove, Elisa Lanzi, Ramiro Parrado, Mehmet Pinar, and Elisa Portale. "The FEEM Sustainability Index: An Integrated Tool for Sustainability Assessment." In Sustainability Appraisal: Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Techniques for Environmental Performance Evaluation, 9–32. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32081-1_2.

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Kang, Moonsoo, K. G. Viswanathan, Nancy A. White, and Edward J. Zychowicz. "Sustainability Efforts, Index Recognition, and Stock Performance." In Risks Related to Environmental, Social and Governmental Issues (ESG), 45–57. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18227-3_5.

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Ichikawa, Hiroo, and Koji Sasaki. "Sustainability and Urban Functions from the Perspective of the Global Power City Index (GPCI)." In Global Environmental Studies, 205–25. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56901-5_11.

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Watanabe, Yasuko, Yuna Seo, and Kiyoshi Dowaki. "Proposal of the Index of Environmental Burden and Health Information." In Technologies and Eco-innovation towards Sustainability I, 275–86. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1181-9_21.

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Medel-González, Frank, Lourdes García-Ávila, Adael Acosta-Beltrán, and Cecilia Hernández. "Measuring and Evaluating Business Sustainability: Development and Application of Corporate Index of Sustainability Performance." In Sustainability Appraisal: Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Techniques for Environmental Performance Evaluation, 33–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32081-1_3.

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Fima, Tatiana Tambouratzis. "The Pilot Environmental Performance Index 2006 as a Tool for Optimising Environmental Sustainability at the Country Level." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 3–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46562-3_1.

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Wei, Bing, Wen Luo, and Bin Zhang. "Assessment Indexes and Systems of Environmental Quality of Green Buildings in China." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90358.

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With the rapid development of modern economy in China, the concept of “green building” is paid more attention, and the assessment to green buildings becomes more important than before. In green building assessment systems, the assessment to the environmental quality is one of the most important content. The research to the assessment index systems of environmental quality is of great significance to developing green buildings in China. In this paper, based on the technical requirements and design outlines of green buildings, the assessment rule, object, method and mode that are suitable for the situations in China are discussed by combining the characteristics of indoor and outdoor environment of green buildings, and the assessment index and system of environmental quality are set up. In the process, the evaluation models of AHP (analytic hierarchy process) are established. The weight factor of the indexes of environmental quality are made certain using the method of AHP, which will be the basis of the whole assessment system of green building and the reference for the implement of green building evaluation policy in China. All the work is to promote the development of green buildings.
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Raza, Syed Waqar, and Ibrahim Mostafa Deiab. "On Sustainability Assesment of Machining Processes." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-65710.

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There is an increased interest in sustainability assessment of manufacturing systems and processes because of the growing global interest in sustainable manufacturing practices. The current sustainability assessment models present a holistic approach, e.g. LCA, without much focus on process specific details. This paper uses a ‘XSI’ approach for defining sustainability indices (e.g. Energy Sustainability Index, ESI). These sustainability metrics can quantify machining processes in terms of impact on the environment and power consumption in a flexible manner, so that various material removal processes can be rated on a uniform scale. In addition, the concept of Normalization, with respect to the ‘feature-of-interest’ is introduced, thus presenting a flexible rating system in terms of process types (turning, milling etc.) and perspectives (material removal, quality etc.). A user-friendly calculator is developed, which converts a set of inputs for the machining scenario into a set of measurable rating quantities and indices including but not limited to production rate, production cost, tool life/cost, energy consumption and environmental burden. This will enable the manufacturing engineer to make an informed decision about parameter selection and process design for sustainability. Machining of hard-to-machine materials such as Titanium Alloys is such a scenario, which is used as a case study to validate the proposed approach.
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Mihalciuc, Camelia Cătălina, and Maria Grosu. "The Concern of Energy Companies in Obtaining and Maintaining their Sustainable Value." In World Lumen Congress 2021, May 26-30, 2021, Iasi, Romania. LUMEN Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/wlc2021/45.

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The last years are distinguished by increasing the awareness of companies towards sustainable business, going beyond their traditional role of providing goods and services at competitive prices to meet customer requirements. Thus, companies will have to consider the effects of their best practices on the environment and society, in order to contribute to the progress of society and the protection of the environment, the essence of sustainable development being the coexistence of economic and social relations and environmental protection by implementing economic, social and environmental objectives. We can see that every company that seeks to become sustainable must consider approaches based on sustainable business practices geared to meeting customer needs. For companies listed on the stock market, the index that stands next to each company is the one that shows the level of sustainability, through corporate sustainability, long-term value is created for shareholders, taking into account all social factors, those related to the environment, as well as economic ones. All these considerations have led to the establishment of the general objective of the paper, through which the authors aim to explain and present the importance of sustainability/sustainable development in energy companies in conjunction with the UN guidelines on business and human rights, which will address with priority to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.
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Pompella, Maurizio, and Lorenzo Costantino. "ESG DISCLOSURE AND EMERGING TRENDS IN RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENTS: HOW ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION MAY IMPACT STABILITY AGAIN." In 12th International Scientific Conference „Business and Management 2022“. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bm.2022.862.

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Environmental and social sustainability together with sound governance have increasingly attracted inter-est from consumers and investors, paving the way for the so called ESG finance. ESG criteria seem to reshape the way companies, investors and consumers behave. While laudable, the acceleration of ESG finance may raise concerns relating to the robustness underpinning this new set of financial products, as well as the reliability of ESG-related in-formation released by companies to design their public profile. A new breed of ESG ratings and rankings is enriching the metrics used by investors and consumers to make informed financial and investment decisions. Nevertheless, such ratings and rankings depend on the individual disclosure strategies adopted by companies. The scope of this article is to complement available data about individual emissions declared by companies with their ESG disclosure level, particularly focusing on the Environment. This leads the authors to build a new metric, deputed to reduce asymmetric information hopefully, and to favour responsible investment. Starting from ESG related information publicly available, a new disclosure adjusted pollution index (namely the “GHG Scope-1 DAdj index”) is built. The empirical analysis performed in the second part of the contribution, based on this new index, suggests that the rush to ESG finance may possibly be generating leeway for new forms of asymmetries and potential distortions in investment decisions as well as providing ground for speculative approaches in financial product development that heighten concerns and new risks for investors. A handful of companies from our sample become less obvious choices for responsible investors once their environmental record is assessed through the GHG Scope-1 DAdj index.
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Guo, Bing, Wasim Javed, Saadat Khan, Benjamin Figgis, and Talha Mirza. "Models for Prediction of Soiling-Caused Photovoltaic Power Output Degradation Based on Environmental Variables in Doha, Qatar." In ASME 2016 10th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2016 Power Conference and the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2016-59390.

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In a previous study, using field measurement data from the Qatar Foundation Solar Test Facility, the daily change in Cleanness Index (CI), a measure of PV performance ratio, corrected for temperature and normalized to a clean PV module, was correlated to environmental variables including airborne particulate matter concentration (PM10), wind speed (WS), and relative humidity (RH). A linear empirical equation between daily CI change and the daily average PM10, WS, RH was developed using Microsoft Excel®. However, the model was not extensively evaluated due to the small data set available then. In this study, a larger data set was used to fit the linear model for daily CI change and daily average values of PM10, WS, and RH. In addition, a semi-physical model was developed to take into account the non-linear mechanics of turbulent deposition, resuspension of deposited dust, and the effect of relative humidity on resuspension. The regression and solver functions of Microsoft Excel® was employed to fit the data. The R-squared values of the linear model and the semiphysical model are 0.0949 and 0.1774, respectively. The semi-physical model predicts the daily ΔCI slight more accurately than the linear model. However, for prediction of cumulative ΔCI over longer periods of time, the two models perform roughly the same. Overall, both models are able to predict the two-month ΔCI with an uncertainty of less than 16%. The results from this study suggest that it is possible to use mathematical models to calculate PV power output degradation in the Doha, Qatar area. This may be a significant step towards development of models that can be used for economic analysis of PV solar projects and plant maintenance.
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Quiroga Berazaín, Marko. "Indicador de sustentabilidad con enfoque de tercera generación: para regiones metropolitanas latinoamericanas: Bogotá, México, Santiago." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6332.

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Analizando tres megaciudades latinoamericanas —Bogotá, Ciudad de México y Santiago de Chile— y los enfoques contemporáneos más utilizados en el estudio de la sustentabilidad, se propone una metodología de evaluación de la sustentabilidad incorporando el enfoque de indicadores de tercera generación (G3°). Construye un Índice de Sustentabilidad Urbana Metropolitana (ÍSUM) que incluye aspectos sociales (agrupados en el término de equidad), económicos (competitividad), ambientales (habitabilidad) e institucionales (gobernanza). El ÍSUM reveló ser fiable y suficientemente sensible como para dar cuenta de la dinámica de los problemas de sustentabilidad en las metrópolis. Su aplicación permite apreciar diferencias entre las tres ciudades: un mayor énfasis en la gobernanza y menos éxito en la equidad social, en el caso de Santiago; mayor esfuerzo en la equidad y menos éxito en la habitabilidad y la gobernanza, en Bogotá; una relación más equilibrada pero levemente más débil en equidad y gobernanza, en la Ciudad de México. Analyzing three Latin American megacities -Bogotá, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile and more contemporary approaches used in the study of sustainability assessment methodology proposed sustainability indicators approach incorporating third generation (G3 °). Build a Metropolitan Urban Sustainability Index (ISUM) including social aspects (grouped under the term of equity), economic (competitiveness), environmental (habitability) and institutional (Governance). The ISUM proved to be reliable and sensitive enough to account for the dynamics of sustainability issues in the metropolis. Its application allows to appreciate differences between the three cities: a greater emphasis on governance and less successful social equity, in the case of Santiago; greater effort on equity and less successful in livability and governance, in Bogota; more balanced but slightly weaker in equity and governance in Mexico City for a relationship.
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Cho, Heejin, Rogelio Luck, Pedro J. Mago, and Louay M. Chamra. "Assessment of CHP System Performance With Commercial Building Benchmark Models in Different U.S. Climate Zones." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90094.

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Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CHP) systems have been widely recognized as an alternative for electric and thermal energy generation because of their outstanding energy efficiency, reduced environmental emissions, and relative independence from centralized power grids. The performance of CHP systems depends on the type of buildings and climate conditions. Recently the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a set of standard benchmark building models. According to the DOE [1], these models cover approximately 70% of the commercial building energy use. This paper evaluates and discusses the simulations of the performance of CHP systems for several commercial building benchmark models in 16 locations representing the U.S. climate zones described in the DOE report. The evaluation has been carried out using an optimal energy dispatch algorithm. The performance index for the optimization process is varied in order to investigate the impact of optimizing operational cost, primary energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emission. The results of this simulation can be used as a guideline to end-users when deciding on energy alternatives for their buildings or by policy makers deciding on regulations for cost, primary energy, or carbon dioxide emissions.
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Kansal, M. L., and Abhishek Gaur. "Expert System Based Water Sustainability Index." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41173(414)176.

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Dagili, Renata, and Sandra Elijo. "Application of composite index for sustainability assessment." In The 9th International Conference "Environmental Engineering 2014". Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press “Technika” 2014, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2014.012.

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Tambouratzis, Tatiana. "How reliable is the Environmental Sustainability Index 2005?" In 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2015.7280801.

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Yılmaz, Fatih. Understanding the Dynamics of the Renewable Energy Transition: A Determinant Index Approach. King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30573/ks--2021-mp03.

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Renewable energy is a key component of global energy transitions. To better identify its dynamics, this study constructs a composite index to measure countries’ renewable energy transition potential. Based on two decades of academic research, we identify 45 main enabling factors of the renewable energy transition. We classify these factors into seven subindices: economic factors, financial development, human capital, energy access, energy security, environmental sustainability and institutional infrastructure. We then aggregate the subindices into a composite index, which we call the renewable energy transition potential index. This index and its subindices are available for 149 countries for the period from 1990 to 2018.
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