Assessing 28 EU member states' environmental efficiency in national waste generation with DEA

G Halkos, KN Petrou - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the efficiency of the 28 European Union (EU) Member States for the
years 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 by employing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and …

Ranking European countries on the basis of their environmental and circular economy performance: A DEA application in MSW

O Giannakitsidou, I Giannikos, A Chondrou - Waste management, 2020 - Elsevier
The scope of this research is to present a more holistic approach on measuring countries'
performance in managing and exploiting their Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Specifically …

The economic and environmental efficiency assessment in EU cross-country: Evidence from DEA and quantile regression approach

V Moutinho, M Madaleno, M Robaina - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
This article aims to estimate the efficiency of 26 different European Countries over 2001 and
2012 comparing their performance. Data Envelopment Analysis technique is used in a first …

Evaluating environmental performance using data envelopment analysis: The case of European countries

K Matsumoto, G Makridou, M Doumpos - Journal of cleaner production, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental efficiency is considered to be a critical pillar of sustainable development;
consequently, improving environmental performance has aroused attention at both the local …

Measurement of environmental efficiency in the countries of the European Union with the enhanced data envelopment analysis method (DEA) during the period 2005 …

MJ Hermoso-Orzáez, M García-Alguacil… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, there has been growing interest in measuring the environmental efficiency of
the different territories, countries, and/or nations. This has led to the development of different …

Analysing efficiency of waste to energy systems: using data envelopment analysis in municipal solid waste management

P Albores, K Petridis, PK Dey - Procedia Environmental Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
In our day-to-day living, a simple underlying principle is to consume resources in one form or
another. This consumption generates waste, which needs to be dealt with in a responsible …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring environmental performance in the treatment of municipal solid waste: The case of the European Union-28

AM Ríos, AJ Picazo-Tadeo - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a measure of environmental performance in the treatment of municipal
solid waste, which is defined as a ratio between a composite indicator of waste treated …

A DEA approach for assessing the energy, environmental and economic performance of top 20 industrial countries

W Iqbal, A Altalbe, A Fatima, A Ali, Y Hou - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Due to growing concerns of global warming, reducing carbon emissions has become one of
the major tasks for developing countries to meet the national demand for energy policies …

Evaluating joint environmental and cost performance in municipal waste management systems through data envelopment analysis: Scale effects and policy …

A Sarra, M Mazzocchitti, A Rapposelli - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
The widespread need to reduce public expenditure and meet the targets for separate
collection established by current national and European legislation requires regulatory …

Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in collecting and processing municipal solid waste: A shared input DEA-model

N Rogge, S De Jaeger - Waste management, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper proposed an adjusted “shared-input” version of the popular efficiency
measurement technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that enables evaluating …