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Assessing the sustainability of water companies: A synthetic indicator approach
María Molinos-Senante,Rui Cunha Marques,Fátima Pérez,Trinidad Gómez,Ramón Sala-Garrido,Rafael Caballero +5 more
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In this paper, the authors discuss a process of indicator aggregation using two approaches based on multi-criteria decision analysis to evaluate and compare the sustainability of water companies from a holistic perspective.About:
This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2016-02-01. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability organizations & Benchmarking.read more
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Building composite indicators using multicriteria methods: a review
TL;DR: A literature review of papers published after 2002 in leading international journals indexed in a recognised database (JCR) is conducted in order to identify the different MCDM methods used for aggregating single indicators into composite ones.
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Water services performance: do operational environment and quality factors count?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance of Portuguese water utilities using data envelope analysis and robust technique of order-m to assess the influence of operational environment on water utilities' performance.
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A principal component analysis based three-dimensional sustainability assessment model to evaluate corporate sustainable performance
Qiuhong Jiang,Qiuhong Jiang,Zhichao Liu,Zhichao Liu,Weiwei Liu,Tao Li,Weilong Cong,Hong-Chao Zhang,Hong-Chao Zhang,Junli Shi,Junli Shi +10 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a three-dimensional (economic, environmental, and social) sustainability assessment model to analyze the corporate sustainable performance based on principal component analysis, and an effective evaluation indicator system for cooperate sustainability assessment is provided after conducting reliability and validity analysis.
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Eco-efficiency assessment of wastewater treatment plants using a weighted Russell directional distance model
TL;DR: In this article, the weighted Russell directional distance model was applied to estimate the eco-efficiency of a sample of real wastewater treatment plants and an inefficiency score was obtained for each variable (cost factors, pollutant removal and greenhouse gases) involved in the model.
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Water Use Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors in China: Based on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)—Tobit Model
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach with undesirable outputs by using Seiford's linear converting method to estimate water use efficiencies for 30 provinces in China, from 2008-2016, and then analyzed the influencing factors while using a DEA-Tobit model.
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