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Environmental Performance Index
About: Environmental Performance Index is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 289 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4762 citations. The topic is also known as: EPI.
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TL;DR: It is found that the environmental performance of OECD countries as a whole has been improved from 1995 to 1997 and a non-radial Malmquist environmental performance index for modeling the change of environmental performance over time is presented.
430 citations
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: Yale's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) as discussed by the authors has emerged as the premier framework of national-scale metrics for global environmental policy analysis and is used by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP).
Abstract: Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has emerged as the premier framework of national-scale metrics for global environmental policy analysis. Data and indicators from 180 countries gauge progress on 20+ environmental public health and ecosystem vitality goals. The framework offers a policy-relevant scorecard that highlights leaders and laggards in environmental performance, gives insight on best practices, and provides guidance for countries that aspire to be leaders in sustainability. The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP) is looking for research assistants to contribute to the 2018 release of the next EPI report. For more information, visit epi.yale.edu.
372 citations
15 Nov 2016
TL;DR: The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) as discussed by the authors ranks 180 countries on nine priority environmental issues in two objectives including protection of human health and maintaining ecosystem vitality, and is one of the first tools of its kind and is now a standard bearer for comparing and tracking country performance on international policies.
Abstract: The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on nine priority environmental issues in two objectives including protection of human health and maintaining ecosystem vitality. The objective underlying the EPI is to move the environmental debate from emotional and rhetorical arguments to more data- and evidence-based action that facilitates performance tracking and accountability of decision makers. Now in its sixth iteration, the EPI was among the first tools of its kind and is now a standard bearer for comparing and tracking country performance on international policies, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Keywords:
index;
indicator;
environmental performance;
environmental policy making;
sustainable development goals;
environment;
climate change;
sustainable development
334 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a general framework for dynamic environmental performance analysis by generalizing the approach proposed by Kuosmanen and Kortelainen from a static to a dynamic setting is presented.
217 citations
TL;DR: The Water Quality Index (WATQI) as discussed by the authors provides a global effort at reporting and estimating water quality on the basis of five commonly reported quality parameters: dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, pH value, and total nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations.
174 citations